Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleverest perhaps of "Great Catherine's" maneuvers was to publish an imposing Parisian financial daily La Gazette du Franc et Des Nations, in which her bogus stock issues were gravely and "conservatively" analyzed and recommended. The pose of "American Methods" was played up to the limit in La Gazette, which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short...
...competitors for this year's Ware prize were required to submit designs and sketches of a recreation center for an industrial city, a so-called "week-end problem". The subject was announced Friday, November 30, at 5 o'clock, and the time limit for handing in the designs was the next day at midnight. Two other similar Competitions will be held this year for other prizes...
Argentina is the melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...
Thus a Constitutional amendment would be required before Argentina could limit immigration as does the U. S. Instead of maintaining a dread, jail-like Ellis Island, the Government at Buenos Aires welcomes immigrants in a spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal...
Sport planes on the other hand are cheap, safe and handy, and so are popular. They sell well and have rapidly become a main support of the aviation industry. The limit of their sale (their saturation point...