Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scholarships with maximum stipends of $1,000 a year will be given by the University to students working for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching next year, President Conant announced yesterday...
...John & Mack Rust appealed for Federal and state aid in working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...
...critical situation prompts this letter. ... In the long run the employes will surely gain from maximum efficiency and economy in railroad operation. . . . Given sufficient time, the managements and the men ought to be able to agree in their common interests upon a reasonable plan of protection. If they do not agree, and legislation is sought as the only solution, I fear harm to the railroad industry. . . . May I suggest that, before you permit such an effort to fail, you confer jointly with...
...motor car and the bus; the loss of short-haul freight business to the truck; the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, the Social Security Act and the Guffey Coal Act; and the Interstate Commerce Commission's reduction of passenger fares last fortnight to a 2? a mile maximum on coaches and 3? on Pullmans...
...Under rule 11, scoring, the maximum is ten points per round, the winner of each round being allotted ten points and the loser in each round allotted any number below ten. It is interpreted that the total of points scored in the three rounds are then compared, and the contestant receiving the highest number of points is de- clared the winner. In the event that one judge gives the highest number of points to one contestant, and the other judge gives the highest number of points to the other contestant, there is disagreement between the judges...