Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplied to provide each athlete with a three-minute shower. If it proves impossible to do this the difficulty has already been overcome, for it is planned to post a man amongst the bathers whose duty will be to see that no one stays in longer than the maximum limit of half a minute...
Dreadnoughts or Capital Ships are already limited to 35,000 tons maximum each by the Washington Treaty which further apportioned their numbers among the U. S., Britain, and Japan in the famed ratio 5-5-3. The Japanese are willing enough to extend the ratio principle to cruisers, destroyers and perhaps even submarines, but they want a new set of numerals, 10-to-7. So far as Capital Ships alone are concerned it should prove easy to agree on their continued limitation...
...enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule offers as maximum yearly bases: $3,600 to chief pilots; $3,000 to long experienced pilots, plus $3 per hour for single-motored ships, $4 per hour for multi-motored ships; $2,500 for new pilots, plus $2 per flying hour. All pilots get double flying pay for night flying. This Curtiss-Wright schedule...
...Yard dormitories for 480 Seniors. In view of the fact that 168 members of the class of 1931 have been accepted in Lowell and Dunster Houses the rooming situation in the Yard will be somewhat relieved next year. Men may apply in groups of any number up to a maximum...
...included in the 18 preliminary tests which the Tanager successfully passed, are a high speed of 110 m.p.h., a minimum speed of 35 m.p.h., a rate of climb of 600 ft. per min. at sea level, a range of flight of 405 mi. at full throttle, an absolute ceiling (maximum altitude to which plane can travel) of 15,000 ft. By passing the preliminaries, the Tanager is entitled to a $10,000 prize. If it has no other competitor in the finals, it will take the first prize of $100,000 at the same time relinquishing the $10,000 prize...