Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceiling set maximum prices at about 15% less than late June levels, pegged print cloth at 39? a lb. Manufacturers, who said this made no allowance for higher costs of raw cotton and labor, simply refused to sell. Grass grew in Worth Street...
...harangued against the spit-&-polish, close-order drill snobbery of Sandhurst. In a handbook called New Ways of War (TIME, Nov.11), he insisted that the only way to repel an invasion was to supplement Britain's regular forces with an army of 4,000,000 civilians trained with maximum democracy and efficiency. To this end the Home Guard Training School was organized, and Tom taught his men sniping, barricading, bombing with homemade bombs, garroting, how to decapitate an onrushing enemy motorcyclist with a piano wire, all the impromptu arts of guerrilla warfare...
...Furniture (70% sold on credit) down payments should be upped from 5 to 20%, payment periods shortened from the maximum of 36 to 15 months...
Navy men said they had been watching the two Japanese almost a year, would hale them before a Federal grand jury this week on a charge of espionage (maximum peacetime penalty: 20 years). As for Al Blake. "King of the Robots," he was congratulated by the Navy for successfully keeping a straight face...
...leading Paris dailies the skeleton remains are miserable little sheets consisting of one-and two-page editions in the Unoccupied Zone (where most are exiles), a maximum four pages in Paris...