Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under such circumstances, the federal government must assume its responsibility as defined by the Employment Act of 1946 to provide for "maximum production, full employment, and purchasing power." This it has yet to do with any willingness or effectiveness...
...America Wang wants a non-integrated society in which the different races would have "the maximum opportunity to develop their potentiality independently of one another." Still he maintains that there are no longer American Chinese of high enough caliber to teach their children about the "glorious traditions" of China. For the American Negro he recommends study of African rhythm and sculpture. To attain his ends he seeks "segregation in elementary and high school education and also in housing," but opposes it in sports, transportation and recreation facilities...
Young children have, proportionately, ten times more strontium 90 in their bones than adults, but so far the average is only about 1/150 of the MFC (Maximum Permissible Concentration) that was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. The amount will surely grow, say the scientists. Even if no more weapons are tested, there may be enough strontium 90 in "the stratospheric reservoir" to raise the strontium 90 in the bones of children in the Northeastern U.S. to as much as 4.3% of the MPC. If weapons testing continues at the same rate as the last few years, the average...
...variation in adults is seven times. Most of these figures are about city dwellers, and the scientists think that the variation in rural areas will be greater still. It is thus likely that if weapons tests continue, a good many unfortunates may come dangerously close to the Maximum Permissible Concentration-which many scientists believe has been set far too high...
...building-trades contracts. Most painters insist on using brushes where sprayers would do the job a lot faster. Carpenters resist prefabricated panels, and in some places panels fastened together at the factory are actually taken apart at the building site and nailed together again. Some locals lay down a maximum daily quota of bricks, studs or square feet of surface for bricklayers, carpenters, painters. Specialization is carried to the point where a contractor on a small job may have to hire one pipe fitter to lay the pipe out and another to join...