Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When President Hoover took Alexander Legge from his $100,000-per-year job as head of International Harvester Co. to make him the $12,000-per-year chairman of the brand new Federal Farm Board, Mr. Legge asked for and got the minimum appointment of one year (TIME, July 15). To Businessman Legge that seemed ample time to set up the $500,000,000 relief machinery authorized by Congress. The year passed. Chairman Legge found that "relieving agriculture" was not the simple direct thing he had anticipated. Husbandmen would not "cooperate" on mere orders from the Board. Commission men fought...
...diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added virtue: all the stresses are uniform...
...certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...
...note with satisfaction that the movement for the observance of Pentecost, in contrast with many undertakings, is being carried forward with a minimum of external organization, without artificial promotion, or the setting of financial and statistical goals, and that attention is being concentrated upon leading the members of the churches into a deeper personal experience of the presence of the living God. . . . Why should not the churches during the period of Pentecost, so far as possible, lay aside their absorption in various programs, which, however good, derive their final value only from their relation to the will...
Hero Chester Tattersall, unremarkable employe of a Manhattan telephone company suddenly finds himself rich through the demise of Uncle Marmaduke, surveying instrument tycoon. His first action is to take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom...