Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
...ballistic missile, black-and-white-striped and tall as a ten-story building, boomed off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, roared up 50 miles or so through a long-awaited break in the grey overcast, plopped its no tons into the warm Atlantic 300 miles downrange (maximum hoped-for range: 9,000 miles). The U.S.'s first successful firing of a second-generation ICBM (after Atlas) brought cheers from airmen and Titan's Martin Co. crew, weary from a two-month fight against the gremlins that unaccountably popped its umbilical cord and played other tricks...
...deprived of civil rights,* an omission seeming to indicate that the President is satisfied with the present pace of integration. Key provisions of the new program : ¶ Make force or threat of force a federal offense when used, as in Little Rock, to defy U.S. court integration orders; recommended maximum penalties: two years and $10,000 fine...
...reasons Anderson and President Eisenhower are battling so hard to balance the budget. A still larger question revolves around the growth of the U.S. economy (see U.S. Expansion). Nevertheless, if interest rates keep edging up, Anderson's problem will only get worse. The Treasury is approaching the maximum interest rate of 4¼% set by Congress back in 1918. Before Secretary Anderson can pay more, he will have to ask Congress to raise the rate. Then the choice will be up to Congress either to raise the rate-and make money more expensive for everyone-or to cut spending...
...PILOT PAY of $33,000 a year will go to jet captains flying maximum of 85 hours a month for Pan American World Airways, up from current ceiling of $25,000 for DC-7C skipper. New Pan Am contract also puts three pilots plus flight engineer in jets...