Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholarships will be awarded annually by the Business School to a maximum of 55 men on the basis of a new regional scholarship program which will begin this September, Dean Donald K. David has announced...
...reaction between its stationary wings and the air that strikes them as the plane moves horizontally. A bird is supported in the same way. The broad inner portions of its wings, which move less than the tips, are kept at any angle of attack that gives them maximum lift...
Even New Dealing, rebellious Henry Kaiser, who believes in maximum expansion (he is currently spending upwards of $45 million on Fontana alone), agreed with other steelmen that the key to more expansion is the quicker-or more realistic-write-off of its cost. In lieu of that, Kaiser has adopted his own harsh substitute. He raised the price of his Fontana steel $30 a ton to apply against the Government debt on his plant...
...years as a weatherman-five of them as chief meteorologist for the city of New York-Benjamin Parry has seen vast improvements in weather predictions and weather service. The Weather Bureau (which once closed up shop every night at 10) now gives 24-hour service, predicts minimum & maximum temperatures, wind velocities, and types and volume of precipitation...
...existing aids to privately financed housing and provided Federal loans to localities for slum clearance and redevelopment. There were other titles for rural and farm housing and a provision for a yearly survey by the NHA and local officials to check needs and the progress of the program. The maximum appropriation per year would have been $133 million...