Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards vary from a minimum of $200 to a maximum of $1,000 in the Freshman year and $1,200 each year thereafter depending on the resources of the recipients. In selecting the winners, the committee considered originality, initiative, leadership ability, and character as well as scholastic ability...
...press conference one morning the President announced that he wanted his newshawks to give maximum publicity to his signature to the Social Security Bill. That afternoon, seated in the Cabinet room, he signed?but correspondents were not admitted to see the ceremony. That privilege was reserved for cameramen, newsreelmen and some 30 honored guests. With the bill's true authors, Senator Wagner and Representative David Lewis, at his right and left, with Madame Secretary Perkins behind him and with the Bill's foster father, Representative Doughton, in a position of proximate importance, the President read off a statement concluding...
...What was surprising about the Baldwin reorganization was that a plan to revamp the company was approved almost at once by all the protective committees. It provides for conversion into new securities of all outstanding issues except first mortgage bonds which would remain in the hands of the public. Maximum outlay for fixed charges would be $133,800 a year instead of $1,281,000. Despite this drastic reduction, President Houston announced last week that Baldwin must do a gross business of $30,000,000 a year in order to break even after charges and depreciation under the reorganization plan...
What the bill as passed meant was that: 1) aged poor pensioned by states would be given an equal pension by the Federal Government, up to $15 a month; 2) unemployment insurance (maximum: $15 for 26 weeks a year) would be established as soon as states passed appropriate laws; 3) workers who reach 65 after 1941 would receive Federal annuities; 4) eventually some 30,000,000 persons would receive such federal benefits; 5) taxes on payrolls and wages to provide these benefits will begin with the collection of about $230,000,000 in 1936 and amount to about...
...Motor Carriers. What the ICC regulations will be like was clearly indicated at the Congressional hearings on the Motor Carrier Bill. With the Michigan statutes as a model, the ICC promised to work out Federal regulations fully as drastic. Michigan requires daily records and monthly reports, "reasonable" rates, a maximum speed of 50 m. p. h. for buses, 35 m. p. h. for trucks. It prohibits standees in buses, smoking or drinking by bus drivers on duty, prescribes a maximum daily driving period of twelve hours on, ten hours...