Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Atkinson on Beale Avenue. Anyone who tried to enter either place was frisked. Holy Joe declared that they were looking for dope. Negroes who protested were arrested, fined. Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...
...statistics made good reading to all Hitler-haters-Consolidated: weight, 20 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 300 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitneys; bomb load, maximum five tons. Boeing: weight, 22 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 280 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclones; bomb load, maximum five and a half tons...
...have two refugees staying with me for the duration of the war, Mrs. Geoffrey Ennor and her 2½-year-old son Neil from Penzance, England. As you are no doubt aware, the maximum amount of money allowed any one person leaving that country is ?10. At my suggestion, Mrs. Ennor converted only a small amount on the pier in New York, receiving $2.25 for each pound, which I considered outright robbery. The balance was brought to Chadron to be sent to New York for exchange through our local bank. I have just received the returns . . . and you can imagine...
Because the new plan is in the experimental stage the maximum number of Freshmen permitted to enroll has been set at 80, and, likewise, because of the administration difficulties involved, a minimum of 15 has been established
...Pratt &Whitney's production methods in the main, but have already worked out some speed-up tricks. Experienced P. & W. men are on the job in Detroit, both to teach and to learn. Yet the Ford aircraft-engine plant will hardly be in production before next August. The maximum hope is that it can turn out 4,500 engines (to P. & W. designs) by mid-1942. Meantime, if all goes well, Pratt & Whitney will produce four to five times as many in the same period. So will Pratt & Whitney's rival, Curtiss-Wright, which is shooting...