Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of "giving money to a foreign government to build a project," should hire a private U.S. operator to do the job. The U.S. should also establish an Office of Private Participation, manned by businessmen and Government career men who would "plan for the maximum use of private capital resources on each project and in each country program...
...Firing squads shot 46 Batista "war criminals," bringing to 362 the eight-week unofficial total-38 short of the 400 maximum once set by Fidel Castro...
...high and 60 ft. long, to prepare food for the 10,000 cattle he fattens on his feed lots near Greeley, Colo. Truckloads of corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...
Aside from the Dixon-Yates affair, the Commission made an unfortunate mark on two major fronts during Strauss's administration: it attempted to conceal the detection of a nuclear explosion so that its stand against banning tests would be stronger, and, so critics claimed, its stand on maximum "safe" radiation dosage was a reflection of AEC policy rather than the established facts. Both of these situations were a reflection of weaknesses in the commission's basic structure which desperately need correction...
...fellow citizens for a service splendidly performed." During a 59-day trial, prosecutors charged that Beck cheated the Bureau of Internal Revenue by pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing a 15-year Washington state sentence for embezzling union funds, could get a maximum sentence of 30 years on the federal conviction. ¶ In Mineola, L.I., Vincent Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced...