Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile millions of puzzled farmers felt the imperious stirrings of spring and wondered whether to let this or that field stand fallow on the chance the Government would pay them cash for reducing their crop, or to go ahead and plant their acres to the limit on the theory that the Senate's delay blotted out all hope of effective Federal...
...limit coast defense guns to 406 millimetres (16 inches), "the size of the largest naval...
...limit tanks to 16 tons each (largest present tanks weigh 81 tons). ¶To destroy all prohibited armaments within three years after the coming into force of the treaty which would run for five years...
...others. As Colonial powers, France and Italy would have in addition respectively 200,000 and 50,000 "Colonial troops." Russia, as the world's largest country, would have under the British Plan 500,000 troops, representing a cut of 62,000 below present Red Army strength. ¶To limit mobile land guns to a bore of 105 millimetres (4 inches) "for the future"-existing guns up to 155 millimetres (6 inches) to be retained, larger guns scrapped...
...applause from brokers who straightway recommenced trading in all the nation's stock and commodities markets. Prices bounded. On the New York Stock Exchange they mounted 15%, greatest one-day gain on record. On the Chicago Board of Trade a few transactions took prices up 5? (the limit allowed by special rule). Next day prices gained again but more moderately. Thereafter began a gradual recession while businessmen took stock of their hopes, doubts, profits...