Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability of a maximum proportion of existing forces," the Four-Army Plan eliminates much costly delay and confusion during the early and critical days of conflict. Such an innovation, calling for reorganization and amplification of the echelons of command from G. H. Q. down, required tireless indoctrination and was not accomplished merely by issuing...
...curious and intriguing fact that the face is extraordinarily sensitive to disturbances of growth. The dynamic centres of growth in the face have their maximum activity early in life and, growth being more seriously handicapped at that particular time, they suffer most...
Under the 1932 laws, the game's maximum penalty-for 13 down, vulnerable and redoubled-was 20,800 points. Under the new code the penalty in the same situation is 7,600 points. On the vulnerable side the reduction in penalties from the 1932 sliding scale (100 for the first undoubled undertrick, 150 for the second, etc. etc.), will doubtless cause lusty overbidding to save rubber...
...whether ships' transmitters could be used in lieu of broadcasting stations; 3) whether it would be practicable to anchor miniature seadromes at intervals over the Pacific, use them as 24-hr. broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several ships by radio, flew back through blinding fog with perfect accuracy...
...Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock Exchange, to the grain market in Chicago. When the Cotton Exchange's big bronze bell closed trading at 3 o'clock, cotton had suffered its worst break since 1927, with a maximum drop of 1.85? per lb. ($9.25 per bale). Next day it opened around...