Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that the Navy would spend $10,000,000 less than its $380,000,000 this year, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 less than its $360,000,000 next year. Economies had been effected by decommissioning older naval craft, holding the enlisted personnel 4.700 below the authorized maximum of 84,000. As of no further strategic value. Guam was stricken from the Navy's list of Pacific bases, plans prepared to demilitarize...
...raised against these examinations is the frequency with which they occur. An average student, taking four courses, finds himself with a schedule calling for an exam almost every week, to say nothing of written and tutorial work. The Department of History recently passed a ruling limiting courses to a maximum of three hour exams each half year; this, however, allows a maximum possibility of twelve hours, or about one a week. On the other hand, occasional tests are of value if only for the fact that they prevent a student from dropping too far behind in his work, and thereby...
...acts of the U. S. G. A.). Said Associate Editor Innis Brown last week: "Admitting that the new ball widens the chasm between the high handicap man and the low; and that it tends to accentuate the slice; yet the 'dub' who could not get the maximum result from the old ball, can from the new. The new ball was designed to bring back the use of wooden clubs and long irons on the fairway-the use of clubs for which the course was designed. It does just that." Delicate is the position of the manufacturers in this...
...near to the declaration of war. . . . That determined, we need a method of freezing the whole price structure at that level. The obvious way to do this is simple: By proclamation to decree that every price in the whole national pattern as of that determined date, shall be one maximum that thenceforth may be charged for anything-rents, wages, interest rates, commissions, fees, in short, the price of every item and service in commerce. . . . Such a system would reduce the cost of war by 50% . . . eliminate war profits and inflation . . . conserve the country's resources and preserve the morale...
...maximum annoyance which New York City's police have caused Jack ("Legs") Diamond, whom the city's newspapers have made the local counterpart of Chicago's Capone, is one conviction out of 22 arrests. Last week, however, as he lay with a collection of his enemies' slugs in him on an Albany hospital cot, slim, pasty-faced Gangster Diamond found himself in real trouble. The State of New York was after...