Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then one day veteran Railroadman Raoul Dautry, Joliot-Curie's boss on the Atomic Energy Commission, came to Saint-Sylvestre.To the assembled villagers Dautry said: under a law of 1810 all subsoil wealth belongs to the state. Therefore no individual would gain from radioactive hectares. At the maximum the local uranium fields would need less than 50 workers. Therefore even a new hotel or restaurant might not be assured of success...
Under the increasing strictures of state control-and in a closely regulated industry-he has also managed to keep a maximum of freedom because, as one politico commented: Trippe has not wasted his time and strength fighting regulation; he has learned to make it work for him. He did well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime...
Axis Sally showed no emotion at the verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of death (no traitor has ever been executed in the U.S. for treason against the U.S.), or a minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
...doctors get 17 shillings ($3.40) a year for each patient on their list, regardless of whether they call on him every day in the year or not at all. A doctor can have a maximum of 4,000 patients on his list, which would give him a gross income of $13,600. In a few regions, there are more doctors than necessary (e.g., one to each 1,000 patients along Britain's south coast). The result is that doctors' income there is low. Though Bevan could raise their fees, he refuses to do so in these cases because...
...Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...