Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which can be definitely advertised as the "largest and fastest in the world." Both ships will be of some 70,000 to 75,000 tons, exceeding the Majestic by upwards of 15,000 tons. Lurks one hidden factor: since neither Bremen nor Europa have ever been run at the maximum speed, both German ships have something in reserve for the great transatlantic race of 1933-34. Not until then will the new Cunard and French challengers be ready...
...Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute's affairs the Government claimed to see much that violated anti-trust laws. It objected to the way in which the Institute, whose members dominate the field, reported prices, equalized freight, fixed uniform maximum discounts to customers classified by volume or function. The Government objected, too, to the Institute's arbitration system and method of bonding each member ($25,000 to $100,000) to insure payment of penalties...
...President had asked for $25,000,000, "the maximum which can be financed without increases in taxes...
...measures have already been introduced in Congress which, if passed, would impose an increased expenditure for the present and next fiscal year ... of nearly $4,500,000,000 and mostly under the guise of giving relief of some kind or another. . . . The sums which I have recommended . . . are the maximum which can be financed without increases in taxes...
Said he: "The task of science is to supply as many legitimate human wants as possible with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that...