Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burns, one of the highest paid radio stars in the country, flew here from Hollywood as soon as he learned of the charges and immediately entered his plea. The maximum penalty is 18 years in prison and $45,000 fine...
...taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising Mr. Lubin's estimate of national income "lost" in Depression to 293 billions, reminding everyone that while 10,569,000 U. S. workers were jobless last October, about 6,800,000 of them would have been jobless even...
...best known in the U. S., with 50 years of success behind it. Its employes kitty in 5% of their wages. The company matches this with a contribution of 5% of the worker's wage for the first two years, increases this to a maximum of 15% by the time the worker has served 15 years. The fund is used to purchase stock over a period of six years, after which the employe draws cash dividends. President Deupree said the plan has reduced his company's labor turnover almost to .5%. Key to its success, said...
...maximum of emotion," says austere Author Goldwater, "has not always been conceived in terms that necessitated formal simplification or the reduction of technical means, as witness the baroque." His exposition of later refinements of Primitivism is detached but informed, makes out a compelling case for their sincerity and importance...
Although all stipends are adjusted to individual needs, the maximum which can be received in upper-class years is $200 greater than that which can be granted Freshmen, owing to the proportionally higher cost of living in the Houses. Twenty-four men in the Junior and Senior classes are now wholly or partially supported by the National Scholarship fund...