Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME erred, is happy to correct the figure upward. The maximum for complete loss of a leg, rated as 90% disability, is $138.50 a month...
...last week that it was building a 750-m:.p.h. wind tunnel to test jet planes.) At high speeds, the jet engine is more efficient than a conventional engine; it uses little more fuel at 500 m.p.h. than at 400. But because the jet engine usually must operate at maximum capacity from the start, it has been relatively inefficient at low speeds. Moreover, to cut air resistance, the P-59 has extremely thin wings which have no room for fuel tanks. Nonetheless, U.S. engineers are reported to be approaching a solution to this problem...
Looking at current schedules for unemployment compensation, C.E.D.'s Lester found them far from adequate, the payments too low, the maximum benefit time too short. The national average of benefit checks (from state governments) is $13.84 a week. Average length of benefit periods is 13½ weeks...
...would forthwith raise the maximum benefit to $20 a week, stretch the time periods to 26 weeks. Lester would try to do it by nudging the states to make more liberal use of their reserves, now in excess of $6 billion. To get the states on the move, he urged Congress to set up a Federal guaranty fund of $600 to $700 million to support any state fund that becomes depleted by prolonged benefit drains...
...School of Law and Diplomacy. Faculty members include such practicing experts as John Newbold Hazard. FEA authority on Russia, John S. Dickey, director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs, Herbert Feis, economic consultant to the War Department. They do most of their teaching in seminars. Maximum enrollment has been tentatively set at 130. Students may attend from a few months to two years. At present they range in age from 20 to 46 (average: 23), are alike only in their ambitious internationalism...