Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed the English coast. Most combat planes now in use would take at least 16 minutes to climb 15,000 ft. from the ground. The Royal Air Force has at least one type of day bomber, the Hawker Hart with a secret steam-cooled engine, capable of a maximum speed of 187 m.p.h. So has France, so has Italy.* To counteract these speedy bombers British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat fighters which can rise like rockets, climb to 15,000 ft. in eight minutes. The British public had its first chance...
...fire testing station at Green Point, L. I. the upper surface of a floor of aerocrete 4½ in. thick kept a temperature of 139° to 207° F. during the last hour of a four-hour fire of 1,825° F. blazing underneath. (The maximum temperature of a burning fire proof building averages 1,700° F.) The same floor when cooled resisted a load of 450 lb. per sq. in. with deflections ranging from...
...Texas a committee organized at the request of the Texas Railroad Commission to study oil conditions suggested a reduction of 126,000 bbl. of crude in the State's average daily production. Present daily average is 863,450 bbl. Maximum demand according to the committee is 76,500 bbl. less than the average production...
...bales, two million bales more than last year. Previous high carry-over was in 1921: 6,590,000 bales. The world's production of cotton for this year is estimated at 26,200,000 bales of which the U. S. will produce approximately 57% The maximum world consumption for the season ending this July was estimated at 13,700,000 bales...
...rapacity of theatre ticket scalpers. Under the aegis of Producer Arthur Hopkins (president) and Alfred Emanuel Smith (board member), the League had persuaded 16 ticket brokers to subscribe to its principles: 1) not less than 25% of all orchestra seats must be saleable at the box office; 2) a maximum surcharge of 75? is allowed brokers; 3) brokers may not bid for blocks of seats in member-theatres but must take their allotment from the League; 4) a ticket which is not stamped to signify that it has gone through the proper channels may be rejected at the door...