Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise guilty in his cups of conduct unbecoming an officer & gentleman. Author of these charges was a reserve lieutenant named James O. Smith Jr., who was Colonel Giffin's adjutant in 1936 and 1937, when they were assigned to CCC duty in upstate New York. Maximum penalty was dismissal, disgrace, loss of a $3,000 annual pension for Colonel Giffin, who will have 30 years of service and the right to retire next March...
...crash was scheduled to occur when the terms were published of a Minority Statute representing the maximum concessions which Czechoslovakia was willing to make to her Sudeten Germans. The terms did not greatly matter* but instantly the Sudetens and their brothers in Germany who have long practiced baiting Czechoslovakia (see p.30) raised an already rehearsed shout: "Completely unsatisfactory...
...Reaffirmed with slight modifications the hours of service restrictions for the trucking industry as drawn up last December. Originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, these rules were postponed upon protests from Labor, which wanted a maximum 8-hr, day, 48-hr, week. The ICC's truck division had specified a maximum 60-hr. week with 15 hr. of duty and twelve of work in any 24. Last week, pointing out that the Motor Carriers Act was designed for safety reasons, not for "economic or social ends," the ICC. clung to the 60-hr. week but specified that...
...pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military aviation...
...flicked like a bug from the deck of its catapult ship, the Friesenland, skittered across to the Azores just after its colleague, the Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...