Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock of $150,000,000 in 6,000,000 shares. The stock is to be offered to Hearst employes at $24 per share. The extent of the privilege to buy will be based upon salary; ranging from 10 shares for those earning up to $1,500 yearly, to a maximum of 2,000 shares for $50,000- (or more)-per-year men. The stock has par value of $25, to bear 7% yearly. Employes may pay for it at $1 per month, may not dispose of it without permission of the corporation. However, control of the voting stock will remain...
...argument more popular and pointed than the secret document argument between Senate and Administration continued last week to be the 18 big (10,000-ton) cruisers allowed the U. S. by the Treaty and Britain's insistence upon that limitation. The Navy's General Board, as a maximum concession, agreed last year to a reduction from 23, the number authorized by Congress, to 21 for the purposes of the London Conference. Admiral Pratt, when chosen to be chief U. S. naval adviser at London, protested against any cut of the General Board's figure...
...until the shooting is over and this thing is safely on its feet." Last week President Hoover gladly complied with this request, renominated Mr. Legge as head of the Farm Board for six years-long enough to make or break the current farm experiment and Mr. Hoover's maximum expectancy for White House residence. Although many a Senator violently criticized Mr. Legge's policies, the Senate last week recognized his sportsmanship, confirmed his nomination...
...week that Big Ben was not only one of the most famed, but, for an old clock, one of the most accurate of timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation did the deviation exceed 1.o sec. No intricate mechanical adjustments but a mere pocketful of small change maintains the accuracy of Big Ben.* "Whenever the clock is losing slightly," explained Astronomer...
Nevertheless Red pride in Russia's showing was at least a trifle overdone. The land of maximum employment is not Russia and by no means the U. S., but France...