Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as Republican Subcommittee Chairman Homer Ferguson shouted "whitewash" and recommended a full Senate investigation of Tom Clark's actions, the FBI was given a free hand in Kansas City. Meanwhile, Harry Truman insisted that the investigation be pushed to the limit. Cackled Republicans derisively : "Nobody in here but us chickens...
...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...
...Voted a Constitutional amendment to limit...
...bath in Carbondale's Roberts Hotel. Kroger soon found that business in the former Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy in charge of the Carbondale territory, which included the southern tip (Egypt) of Illinois, slices of Kentucky and Missouri...
...some 70,000 other Americans, a West Coast advertising executive wanted to go to Europe this year. Like many of the others, he was worried by stories of fantastic prices, poor food, primitive living conditions. But he went anyway, firmly resolved to cut corners, stretch every dollar to its limit. What he found out was that the ubiquitous black market in currency enabled tourists to eat well and travel cheaply, though there was a slight risk in patronizing...