Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of U.S. families in search of a not-too-expensive house with the maximum of good living and good design, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put up a bid. Last week in the museum garden it showed a "suburban" house which had been painstakingly built on the premises...
Implimentation of the NSA proposals would "further remove the economic barriers to education and enable our most competent and gifted youth to obtain for themselves and for society the maximum benefits to be gained from higher education," the report continued...
...agreement was full of ifs & buts, and it still had to be approved by the U.S. Congress and the other nations. But, in principle, it would provide a steady, four-year market for a maximum of 456 million bushels of wheat a year for five major wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum...
...comparatively small, though the cost to the U.S. might prove large. As long as wheat support prices are higher than the pact price, the Federal Government would have to pay the difference. In effect, it would subsidize the exports. Furthermore, importing nations would be required to take their maximum quotas under the agreement only when the price fell to the minimum. As long as the price was above that, they could buy from Russia or Argentina, if those nations wanted to undersell the U.S. Considering all this, the agreement seemed to be what the Wall Street Journal called...
...just allowed, to bring $400 worth of foreign purchased merchandise into the United States duty free, and then only if he has been out of the country at least 12 days. Anything over this amount will be taxed the regular import duties. Last year the government imposed a $100 maximum on foreign purchases...