Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggression treaty such as he made with Poland. Or that Hitler proposed that Germany, Russia and France should join in guaranteeing to Czechoslovakia a neutrality status like that of Belgium. Germany was said to ask some reduction of Czechoslovakia's armed forces, as well as maximum Nationalities Statute concessions to the Sudeten Germans...
...inserted in each bone above and below the break and after the flesh heals around them, are connected by a turnbuckle which is screwed 1/20 to 1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches is the maximum stretch. The tendons are also snipped in a Z-pattern, pulled to the desired length at once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again...
...loans is to let farmers keep their wheat off the market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA, but wheat prices on exchanges promptly sagged as brokers figured the loan might actually turn out to be the maximum price, as occurred with last year's 9? cotton loans...
...harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With the beam so concentrated, the 100-watt main transmitter's effective power swelled to 250 watts. When sending to a station out of the direct line of flight, reeling...
...minimum pay schedules range from a low of $8 for choral group singers on a 15-minute broadcast in California to a high of $25 for soloists on a full-hour show in New York or on a national network. It also provides: a limit on rehearsal time (maximum 8 hours for a 60-minute broadcast); extra pay for rehearsal overtime; pay for auditions. The contract recognizes A. F. R. A. as exclusive bargaining agency for sustaining artists in the cities affected (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco), establishes a modified closed shop.* guarantees that origination point of network...