Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conference. Byrnes Committee report was issued at precisely the moment when this recommendation was sure to have maximum effect. House & Senate committees-the latter headed by Senator Pat Harrison, whom Senator Byrnes is supposed to have persuaded to vote for the Reorganization Bill last month-had been deadlocked over the tax bill for a week. Cause of the deadlock: Pat Harrison's Senate Committee was adamant about eliminating the undistributed profits tax entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving...
...Maximum speed of 55 miles an hour was developed by the two-cylinder test car Wednesday night, but the car which eventually reaches the market will be eight cylindered, have four of these two cylinder units. It will be priced to sell with the lowest three gas cars on the market...
Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing...
...eight months. These records, said Dr. Miller, have shown "that the old. time-honored 28-day cycle has been largely a figment of the imagination, and that the average healthy woman will have a cycle which varies between a minimum of 26 or 27 days and a maximum of 30 to 32 days...
Speaking practically, there is not much chance of any of the modern European despotisms releasing their political prisoners or punching bags. If there were any chance, the maximum number of refugees entitled to enter the U. S. under present quotas would be 26,000 each year from Germany, 1,400 from Austria, 2,700 from Russia, 5,800 from Italy...