Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison breaks. Unless actually caught in an overt criminal act, a pilot would be liable only for violation of the Federal regulations against low flying (minimum, 1,000 ft. over cities, or towns or congested areas; 500 ft. elsewhere) and the dropping of objects from aircraft (maximum penalty: $500 fine and revocation of license). Last week the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce considered the problem "unofficially" presented to it by a recent conference of prison wardens at Columbus, Ohio. Possible solution: creation of "safe zones," barred to aircraft, over all penal institutions...
From his modernistic desk in his modernistic new offices, President Carleton H. Palmer of E. R. Squibb & Son preached the five-day week to his fellow industrialists. His potent points: "If all industries adopted the five-day week, that would decrease production about 9% at a maximum. That means a maximum of 9% more workers would have to be employed . . . would take care of at least half of the millions unemployed today...
...early yesterday morning of club initiates carousing without the slightest regard for the men residing there is of course, extremely childish. Such sophomoric abortions as the invasion of dormitory rooms whose occupants were totally unknown to the neophytes, the moronic use of any device calculated to arouse a maximum of noise, and deliberate annoyance of professors residing in the Yard dormitories are not even on a par with collegiateism, a trait which supposedly has been successfully segregated from the Harvard tradition...
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, ye men of fat legs and thin legs, of long legs and short legs; harken, ye seekers after maximum comfort and the minimum of swaddling clothes. Give ear, ye who would be dictators of a fashion and dressed in the style of the hour. We announce the "short", as suitable for all Hanover occasions--full dress, afternoon wear, morning lounging apparel. Tomorrow...
Said he: "If the 30 horsepower obtained yesterday is the maximum to be obtained by the Matanzas Plant, consider the cost of a plant powerful enough to supply a city requiring 40,000 horsepower for its electrical needs...