Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having punched the welterweight (147 Ib. maximum) crown off Barney Ross's head, Henry Armstrong, already holder of the featherweight (126 Ib. maximum) title, became the first fisticuffer in the long annals of pugilism to wear both crowns at the same time...
According to the practice of this aid policy, awards go on the basis of outstanding ability and character, regardless of financial need. Carrying a maximum of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year thereafter, the stipend varies in each case, being sufficiently large, when necessary, to meet all of a student's expenses...
...Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty for conviction on the indictments of violating the Sherman Act is $5,000 or a year in jail, or both. But the case is not likely to go before a jury until October, and Thurman Arnold presumably still believes in "practical solutions...
...conspiring to raise and fix gasoline prices (TIME, Jan. 31). In the four months it took to arrive at that conclusion the Government prosecution and the industry's defense (there were 57 defense attorneys) together spent a total of about $3,000,000. In addition, conviction carried a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine or a year in jail for each executive and a $5,000 fine for each company. With motions for a new trial still under consideration, sentence has not yet been imposed...
...jobbers only a carefully defined profit. Last week, considering the amount of time and money they had already spent and might still have to spend, 14 of the 22 accused oil companies and eleven of their executives* decided to plead nolo contender e. That meant they agreed to pay maximum fines and court costs amounting to $400,000-which, considering the cost of the previous trial, was probably a shrewd economy. Said Attorney General Homer Cummings: "The offer may be regarded as a complete capitulation...