Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Should that principle be universally applied, the effect would be equivalent to creating a fence 500 ft. high around every airport. And as approved aircraft have a minimum gliding ratio of 7-to-1, airmen have computed that 3,500 ft. would have to be added to each dimension of the present average airport for planes to clear the edges at the prescribed altitude...
...Guggenheim Process starts out with electric shovels, progresses through concrete tanks with 7,500-ton capacity to mechanical refrigeration and centrifugal driers. Like the Jackling copper process, it permits the use of much lower grade ores-as low as 8%, which is less than half the minimum required by the Shanks process. It cuts labor costs 75%, fuel costs 72%. It means that mass produc- tion has come to Chilean nitrate, that the Guggenheims are even more the masters of the show. For the new Chile Nitrate Co. into which the entire industry has been merged will use the Guggenheim...
What the Government does afford an Army Air Corps captain is a minimum basic pay of $2,000, a flying bonus of 50%, and to a single man maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent...
...Last week there were approximately 63,500 licensed hack drivers in Greater New York, the total increasing by about 300 each week. Of 20,000 registered cabs, 15,000 are on the streets by day, 18,000 by night. The minimum and general fare is isc for the first quarter-mile, 50 for each subsequent quarter-mile- fought by Taxi Weekly as a "starvation" rate...
...week in India was unexciting. Approached in his jail near Poona by an emissary of James Ramsay MacDonald with terms of compromise, St. Gandhi cocked his bird-like head and listened. Rejecting the terms (secret) he denounced "the selfishness of the British Government," demanded as the first and minimum price of peace complete self-rule for India...