Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...TIME erred. Some 300 six-cylinder Fords were sold in 1906. Reader Kock is right in calling them fast (maximum speed: about 45 m.p.h.), wrong in saying they had planetary transmission. That came with Model...
...painted the picture of the years since 1933, when Labor gained "the untrammeled right, not privilege, to organize and to bargain collectively"; when laws established fair minimum wages, decent maximum hours, outlawed child labor, set up machinery for the mediation of labor disputes...
...usually-goes the economy. Last week the U. S. steel industry looked back on the third best month in its history. But its rate of production last week-93% of capacity-was already ahead of August's 89.72%. It was, in fact, working nearly at the practical maximum of its present equipment. And steel's repercussive power over the economy was already being felt...
They were, in fact, the best destroyers the U. S. Navy had up to 1934. Then bigger (1,395-1,850 tons), faster (maximum 41 knots), more maneuverable and better-gunned destroyers began to come off the ways.* The Navy gradually retired its oldsters, but kept them greased. By last week, 123 were in service. Some have been converted into mine layers, some are being made into troop carriers and anti-aircraft batteries. Most were assigned to safe and stodgy neutrality patrol. The Navy last week had 78 modern destroyers, 57 more under construction and 74 planned. Even before...
...these paper plans had three common characteristics: 1) they assumed a step-by-step increase to the wartime maximum; 2) they assumed that this increase would be acquired by conscription, to be voted after war was declared; 3) they had no logical basis, since the U. S. never told its soldiers where and under what conditions they should be prepared to fight...