Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson and Knowland left it up to a Senate-House conference to work on some of the other changes that the Finance Committee wrote into the House-passed bill, e.g., the committee slashed the bill's time span from five years to three and the President's maximum tariff-cutting authority from 25% to 15%. Likely conference result: a four-year, 20% compromise. That would still be something of a victory for the Administration's freer-trade program: the original reciprocal trade act has been extended ten times since its birth in 1934, but never for more...
Stopping it is another matter. Because the misrepresentation is in the beguiling pitch rather than the written contract, FTC got a "cease and desist" agreement with only five of 30 firms it investigated. To give FTC some teeth, the subcommittee is considering a bill providing a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine and/or five years' imprisonment for advance-fee operators, hopes that new public awareness will weaken the racket...
...Slashed the bill's time span from five years to three, and the President's maximum tariff-cutting authority from...
...Robert Earl Hughes. 32. plausibly billed as the heaviest man in medical history (6 ft.. 1.041 Ibs.), son of an Illinois farmer, traveling attraction on the carny circuit, probable victim of an incurable disfunction of the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus; of uremia; in Bremen, Ind. With a maximum circumference of 10 ft.. 2 in.. Hughes had trouble getting around, lived in a converted semitrailer truck, which nurses climbed into by ladder to attend his final illness...
...larger than Great Britain and France, carries to the sea more water than the Seine, the Danube and the Thames combined. Filtered through the five Great Lakes, its steel blue waters normally run free of silt. The stages of the river rarely vary more than 7 ft., and its maximum now is only twice its minimum -bonus factors for hydroelectric development. Yet power engineers surveyed its upper reaches for half a century in hungry frustration; for even longer, navigators eyed it as a barrier and an opportunity...