Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignoring such attacks, President Andrew Conley of the T. U. C. threw maximum weight against the pacifists. Amid hubbub the T. U. C. adopted a resolution under which British laborers may work on whatever munitions orders come the way of their employers. As a sop to pacifism the T. U. C. went on record as still favoring the League of Nations but definitely rejected the program of a general strike to prevent...
...likes you. He gets inspiration from listening to the music for a show, rarely builds models for his scenery. He says he is in the business only for the money. As soon as he can, he is going to Hollywood to make a fortune (he gets a maximum of $5,000 per stage show), retire, buy a boat, sail to the Cocos Islands to hunt treasure...
...Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they did by working, proceeded to picket while hogweed grew two feet high...
...waterfowl, actual shooting days will be fewer. In each State, hunting will be permitted on days recommended by the State's own game department. Thus, California will hunt Saturdays and Sundays for eleven weeks (22 days), New Mexicans for 14 weeks (28 days). All other States elected the maximum 30-day season, but only Nebraska and West Virginia will observe continuous seasons. In 30 States and Alaska, hunters will shoot three days a week for ten weeks, in nine others five days a week for six weeks. Bag and possession limits are the same as last year except...
...followships, awarded regardless of financial need, yet at the same time carrying a maximum stipend of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year there after, are parts of a unique experiment to reward students of rare academic promise...