Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...
...shrinkage in income to the University; the average rental figure dropped from $300 to $264, its value before the Houses came into being. Throughout this discussion the prices quoted are those per man. Under the new schedule no rooms were priced higher than $500, in contrast to the previous maximum of $600. The number of accommodations costing $260 and less was increased from...
...busy "organizing the working masses under the act'' to divert any of their energies to other purposes. The No. 1 Socialist, Norman Mattoon Thomas, publicly warned that NRA is packed with all manner of new dangers. He fears that the minimum wages in the codes will become maximum wages, that Labor will find itself organized into unions under a Fascist state. Said he: "It may turn out to be just a case of getting milk from contented cows, with a few getting the cream off the top." The Communist attitude was exemplified last week when burly, bald, scowling...
...Race. Powered with one Napier-Schneider Cup 1,375-h. p. engine, against the four 1 ,650-h. p. Packard motors in Gar Wood's 38½-ft. Miss America X, the 24½-ft. duralumin-hulled challenger was well known to be much slower, even if her maximum speed was 100 m.p.h., as re- ported. Her chance was to beat Miss America X on the turns, which Hubert Scott-Paine expected to make at full speed while Miss America X was laboriously slowing down and regaining speed. The water was smooth when the boats roared out across...
...promptly went into an all-day huddle behind locked doors. With its advice & consent Secretary Ickes shot to the Governors of the oil states maximum production quotas, which slashed the U. S. flow more than 300,000 bbl. daily. He banned withdrawal of oil in storage, ordered imports held at the average for the last six months of 1932. But, said Mr. Ickes: "After a final analysis ... I decided we would not attempt to fix prices today. I wanted to see what effect this allocation order would have...