Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resistance is likely to collapse, state by state, according to the Arkansas pattern of badly-planned illegal dodges. Indeed Faubusian opportunism may help retrieve the situation it brings about. Having gained the maximum public support a show of opposition can produce, few politicians would want to risk unpopularity by ending public education altogether. Liberals may well hope that Faubus misestimates the rigor of his idealism in likening himself to Ghandi...
Since World War II the big drive has been to produce the maximum number of houses at the lowest possible prices. What Mason now wants is to put the emphasis on quality, to encourage building better homes which will attract owners of less desirable houses to buy up, thereby upgrading the nation's entire housing supply. While much of the emergency postwar housing gave sound value, a lot of it was pure junk. In 1952 a congressional committee toured the U.S., found thousands of unhappy home buyers saddled with long-term mortgages on houses with floors that heaved like...
Weaknesses still exist in the HSA, despite the year of trial and error. The corporation has no floating funds and no reserve for emergencies. Thus, the directors refuse to join any speculative venture, even despite the lure of potential high profits and maximum employment. Some sort of fund to provide security would make many more largescale projects possible for student businessmen. Caution is the key-word of all current HSA projects...
Charged by the House of Representatives last week with contempt of Congress in his refusal to answer 22 questions asked by the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight: Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine, 67, collector of New England politicians. Maximum penalty: one year in prison, $22,000 in fines...
...before his court-martial in Verdun, pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion, waited for a light sentence. After all it had been a long time. But deserting, especially in war, is a high crime, and so the court-martial viewed it. The sentence: ten years at hard labor (maximum for desertion: death). The sentence is subject to review, and it may be drastically reduced. Said sturdy Yvette: "I've only one wish -that he be released soon so that we can get married and lead a normal life, taking the children out for walks on Sundays. Who knows...