Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Gregory had some sensible things to say in self-defense: that the Army wanted maximum speed, had to pay for it; that the Quartermaster Corps alone was not responsible for all the mistakes. According to his charts, 94.8% of Army construction has been completed since his tremendous job of emergency building began last June. Said he last week: "It's axiomatic that you can't save time and money at the same time...
...conferences between Congressional leaders and Price Boss Leon Henderson. By the time the miserable compromise dropped into the legislative hopper, its only teeth were false. No one apparently realized the basic fact that inflation is an overall thing, uncontrollable in bits & pieces. The bill authorized the President to establish maximum prices for any commodities on the basis of prevailing prices of July 29, adjustable according to other factors (speculative fluctuations, general cost increases, etc.). All prices thus established are finally reviewable by a special three-judge appeals court and by the Supreme Court on certiorari...
...Costs of occupation (France: 400 million francs a day) are not fixed in relation to what the German military spends in an occupied country, but on the basis of the country's maximum war budget prior to German conquest...
Jones won the fight by simply moving faster. In June he got authority from Congress to make RFC loans to help foreign governments get maximum dollar exchange out of U.S. investments. Last week he used this power to lend Britain $425,000,000, which will be used for pocket money and to pay for armament orders placed before Lend-Lease went into effect...
...maximum for print goods is upped to 43?-a compromise between the original ceiling and the 46? demanded by rebellious manufacturers. Other maximums go up in proportion, to levels of the last week...