Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation: "We don't want Negroes here." He sued. Last fortnight the hotelkeeper told a British court that his house was full of Americans when Constantine arrived, argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should not bow to U.S. prejudices...
...small-scale and local, but swift and bitter. Infantry and tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
...main body is an iron tube loaded with explosive roughly equivalent to a one-ton aerial bomb. This blows up when the fuel is burned out and the robot hits something. Speed is about 300 m.p.h. ; maximum range, possibly 150 miles...
Some details of performance and fire power were still purposely blurred. The B-29 has a maximum speed at its favorite altitude (high) of "well over 300 m.p.h.," its ceiling is "well over 30,000 feet." Boeing did not give its maximum range or bomb load, said simply that it carries a heavier load farther and faster than any other heavy bomber. Total fire power is still under wraps, but it is known that the B-29 is armed with .50-caliber machine guns, aimed and fired by remote control, and that it packs a 20-mm. cannon...
...veterans' placement bureau in finding a job, unemployment insurance of $20 a week for a maximum of one year...