Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carrot & Stick. "Our new policy, in truth, is a policy of maximum and minimum objectives. Now that they are confronted with an accomplished fact, the Soviets are giving evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western...
...Constitution, biggest plane ever built for the U.S. Navy. The Constitution will be slightly slower (300 miles an hour) than its sister ship, the Constellation. But it will carry 180 passengers on two spacious decks connected by spiral stairways, will have a 6,000-mile range (v. a maximum of 67 passengers and 3,000 miles for the Constellation...
Previously, applicators for living space in University dormitories have come uncomfortably close to the maximum allowed-even with rooms operating at 150 percent of capacity-while the possibility of a variation of several hundred from the present registration guess has made it advisable to look for a margin of safety in other means of housing...
...most specific economic conflict is in the field of collective bargaining: planned production means planned wages, and the results of collective bargaining, under which both management and labor are seeking their own maximum advantage, will not usually fit in with a comprehensive system of wage control. Wootton would thus make arbitration compulsory, with government decisions given the authority of a court...
Details have still to be worked out, but advance speculation places the value of the individual scholarship at 2,000 dollars. This would mean an annual award of 500 scholarships for 20 years to each of the six countries eligible for the maximum benefit of one million dollars a year, China, Great Britain, France, Mexico, Italy, and the Philippine Islands...