Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there began what may be the case which the Government has been looking for and the cinema industry avoiding. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives, were haled into court before Federal Judge George Moore, charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Maximum penalty is $5,000 and one year imprisonment. If defendants are guilty, the whole mechanism by which the industry has disposed of its wares will be suspect...
...training in mathematics early gave him exact habits of mind; a badly-set broken arm that impaired his physical development provided another impetus to study. Attending Amherst on borrowed funds, putting himself through Columbia Law School by tutoring and going more deeply into debt, he struggled to get the maximum value from an education that cost him so much. As an energetic law clerk, his salary was increased from $720 a year in 1900 to $3,125 in 1903, and he was soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic career and a quiet family...
...across the fire-pit. His moccasins were not singed. In Manhattan last week Joseph Dunninger of the Universal Council for Psychic Research said that fire-walking may be made comfortable by lighting the blaze first along the centre line of the pit; by the time the edges have reached maximum heat, the centre line, along which the performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast-cooling lava fragments or by applying "heat-resisting chemicals" to the soles. Some primitives who specialize...
...your good luck. But you know the time is coming when the sea is going to rise and hand you all it's got in the way of trouble-and that's plenty." Aground in a tropical hurricane at night last week, Captain Sundstrom was handed a maximum of trouble...
...Many Homes Have Radios? Answer: 19,001,592. or 58.4%. This figure does not represent maximum potential circulation since no network claims to cover every square mile of the U. S. For 79 selected programs, the networks claim an average "listening area" of 12,489,886 sets. But all sets are not running all the time...