Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislocation of a few businesses or industries in this or that section is not troubling the Administration at the moment. It is convinced that planned economy, with its surgical operations, is the maximum good for the maximum number. The people wanted a new deal--they are getting it. And hence painful readjustments must be left to the wisdom of the administration, which is just as anxious as anybody to find the right answer...
...Press was not an industry, adaptable to codification. Haggles developed over three points: 1) the publishers, fearful of being "licensed" into silence and out of business, wanted a written-promise on Freedom of the Press; 2) they wanted newshawks and editors getting $35 per week or more exempted from maximum hours as "professional men"; 3) they wanted to continue using newsboys. Finally last fortnight the President signed a newspaper code which granted every major point demanded by the publishers (TIME...
...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...
...which apply only to rooms at or below $180, the blanks are similar in form to those distributed during the last four years and ask for ilnformation which will be of assistance in making the assignments, such as special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House, maximum price of room, the type of accommodation desired, academic standing, proposed field of concentration, activities in which the student has engaged, etc. The application blanks give students an opportunity, if they so desire, to express their special claims for wishing to be admitted to a particular House...
...happy at the turn of events. Those businesses which may be affected adversely by tariff reductions are probably not going to be so happy. But, as Mr. Wallace says, some businesses are bound to be injured and the best theory to pursue is to try to attain the maximum good...