Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States-all in the South-is the gross weight of trucks fixed so low; nowhere but in South Carolina is there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks are 96 in. wide, though Rhode Island and Connecticut permit 102-in. widths. South Carolina allows a maximum length of 35 ft. Length in other States varies from 27 ft. in Tennessee to 60 ft. in Nevada...
This is a noble ambition and a good thing. But it remains to be seen whether Freshmen will pay particular attention to the newly appointed Counselor. This will depend largely on the Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere...
...white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
...witnesses. Barrel-chested Son-in-Law Miller and youthful Son-in-Law Felis, both professional wrestlers, took a night off during the trial to wrestle in nearby Hannibal, Mo. where Miller earned $20. But when the troupe realized that the 13 counts on which each was held, carried aggregate maximum jail sentences of 65 years and $75,000 in fines, they giggled less. Son-in-Law Miller offered to wrestle Assistant U. S. District Attorney Roy Foreman two falls out of three for a not guilty verdict. Snapped Prosecutor Foreman: "I hope to throw all of you-into jail...
...annum of total deposits) on those 13,800 U. S. banks which are now insured. In case of another crisis such as 1933, the FDIC could issue its bonds, notes or debentures to a total in one year of $975,000,000. Thus FDIC has or can raise a maximum of a billion and a quarter dollars as an anchor to windward for some 20 billion in deposits. Whether the anchor would hold in the face of a real banking storm even Leo Crowley does not care to assert, but in the 179 bank failures since FDIC began (nine...