Word: limitates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agreed by unanimous consent to take up the veto of the Postal Pay Increase Bill at the conclusion of routine business on Jan. 5, to limit debate, to dispose of it before 4 p. m. the next...
...than Secretary Wilbur has said that the only way of maintaining the treaty ratios of the respective fleets "will be by a building program commensurate with that of the other signatory powers." He estimates the cost of such a program at $110,000,000 a year, and the time limit at 20 years, or a total of $2,200,000,000 just to keep in step...
...Washington Conference tried to limit competition in naval armaments by setting up the 5-5-3 ratio as a means to this end. Now Secretary Wilbur proposes to make this ratio end itself. As he interprets it, so long as the United States, Great Britain, and Japan keep to the ratio, the merry race to see which can float the most tons of steel can go or ad infinitum. It has evidently not occurred to him that competitive building is useless unless it confers an advantage upon numbers. To continue to build when an established ratio makes certain that...
President Coolidge has made his position clear. He opposes any substantial increase in the American navy. In the face of claims that the British and Japanese are increasing their subsidiary ships, which were not limited by the Washington Conference, the President can still play his trump card, and call another conference to limit subsidiary building. Some say that Great Britain and Japan would welcome such a proposal. If naval rivalry is to end, this action must be taken eventually. Ordinary common sense dictates that it be done now, before more millions are sunk into ship to be scrapped...
Then, during the War, 2.75% alcoholic content was set as the limit on legal beverages. The revenue agents still collected the tax and undertook to punish those who disregarded the limit. A little later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...