Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection to the western half of the International Settlement where the remaining Americans and British were seeking safety. And the battle went on: a major engagement with approximately 100,000 Chinese and 60,000 Japanese troops involved, with the Japanese fleet of 50 vessels swollen this week...
...course of signing a $132,732,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior, the President took note of a provision allotting the maximum $14,483,000 appropriation authorized for Federal aid to vocational education under the George-Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...
...sponsored jointly by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors and 120 U. S. newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants at a maximum cost of $10. To carry to the world the news of which coaster-wagon rolled down the 1,175-11. chute fastest, there were no less than 15 press wires...
...give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago. The Garden's long control over the heavyweight fight industry...
...after the Patriarch's funeral tension had become so great that the Premier bolted from the capital to Brod where Prince Paul, the chief Regent, was vacationing. In an effort to cause the Premier the maximum embarrassment, the Orthodox Holy Synod this week ordered him back to Belgrade to stand trial with the rest of the "excommunicated" before a Church Court...