Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Move In. An estimated 1,200,000 veterans now have homes financed by G.I. loans, and the requests for loans were down 43% in April compared with April 1947. Other reasons for the decline: 1) loans are increasingly hard to get at 4% interest, the maximum under the veterans' law, and 2) high prices (the average veteran, said VA, earns approximately $2,800 a year, can afford no more than $6,000 for a home...
...Make it unlawful to work or conspire toward the establishment in the U.S. of a foreign-controlled, totalitarian government, i.e., the Soviet. (Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and ten years in jail; loss of citizenship...
...Require all organizations which the Attorney General had determined were Communist or Communist fronts to register, report their finances, the names and addresses of their leaders and, in the case of Communist organizations, supply complete membership lists. (Maximum penalty for noncompliance: $5,000 fine and five years in prison...
Veblen believed that modern machinery was the latest expression of this natural instinct; he concluded that refusal to use the maximum machinery was not only economically silly but downright unnatural. The machine's chief enemy, he argued, was a moss-backed array of old-fashioned institutions and traditions - and he set out to blow them apart. In his first and most fascinating book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), he coldly scrutinized the various ways in which the successful businessman struggled to evade his debt to the very machine which had made him rich...
...come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks of "setting the table," but in fact his furniture is almost as stable as the four walls which surround it, and much more important. Where once the human hand created the bare minimum, the machine now creates the dressy maximum...