Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security Council been paralyzed by Russian "noes"? The U.S. proposed to limit the veto rights of all the Great Powers-by eliminating the veto itself from procedural questions and applications for membership to which it now applied. From Yalta on, the U.S. had based its U.N. hopes on essential big-power agreement in the Security Council. Now, to stave off complete U.N. paralysis, the U.S. was ready to give the 55-nation Assembly a stronger voice in world affairs...
...impressed. It raised margins on butter trading by 66%, on eggs 25%. Many a grain broker privately ordered his customers to post higher margins. But the grain-exchange officials took no heed of Mehl. Board of Trade President J. O. McClintock said firmly: "A margin fixed at an extreme limit is likely to throw . . . the market out of gear...
Lamar has made no cuts yet, preferring to work out different combinations of players and give everyone a chance to show his stuff. But 35 men will be the limit of the Freshman first team after the Andover game...
Police headquarters at Central Square yesterday announced that they would vigorously enforce a one hour night parking limit from 2 to 6 o'clock. All violators will be tagged, with one, two, and three dollar fines for successive breaches of the rule. Few open air facilities are available to relieve the bleak situation...
When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal Government refused to interfere, citing the exemption of unions from prosecution for trade monopoly under the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Then the union went a step further, ordered crews to refuse to sell fish for less than the former OPA prices...