Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting ships of the maximum war efficiency and replace overage ships." (That meant that the Navy would use the $238,000,000 allotted it under the public works program to build 32 new men-o-war-cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines-to bring its strength up to the full limit of the London Treaty, make its "second to none" boast a reality.) "To assemble the U. S. fleet for a period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games...
...Capitol lobbies and committee rooms. In 1924, less from conviction of right than from a desire to wash its hands of a troublesome question, it submitted child labor to the States in the form of a Constitutional Amendment. If ratified by 36 States, the Amendment would empower Congress to "limit, regulate and prohibit" the employment of persons under...
...seminars in land economics, found enough interest in them to justify the school. For backing he went to Owen D. Young, John W. Davis. Frank O. Lowden. Philip A. Benson. Last week he had enough support to announce that the school would open next October. Dr. Ely plans to limit his enrolment to 300, mostly adult postgraduates. There were 600 applicants last week. The three year course with himself and other land experts in charge will cover land utilization, housing, planning, zoning, real property law, architecture, assessments and taxes, regionalism, public policy and social control. It will have two mottoes...
...members, a decrease of 2,359 from the previous total, largely attributable to economic conditions. The Committee on Foods last year censored the advertising, labeling and purity of 631 commercial food products, approved 510.- The Council on Medical Education is actively persuading medical schools to limit their enrolment to stop overproduction of U. S. doctors. The nation has 25,000 too many doctors already, estimates the A. M. A., and 6,000 new students entered medical schools last year. Doctors educated abroad hereafter will find getting a license to practice in the U. S. exceedingly difficult...
Thus spurred, the Conference swiftly appointed a steering bureau which met at once, decided to limit delegates' speeches to 15 min. each, adopted a program of daily conference work from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. with 90 min. out for lunch...