Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (43-to-30) a 3.05% beer bill; later accepted the House's 3.2% limit...
...said earlier today, I see a great future for the airplane in the stratosphere. I would say today that the limit of the airplane's endurance is about 12 miles above the earth. If it had not been for the vibration and the fact that I did not feel capable of attempting the design of such a plane, I might have used one myself...
...Life Underwriters Association of New York took pains to point out that the income of life insurance companies was 50% more than the amount necessary to meet death claims. However New York's Superintendent of Insurance felt called upon to limit policy loans and withdrawals against policies' cash value to $100 per policyholder in order to prevent a run on insurance companies like the run on banks. Similar action was taken in other States...
...closed in 1930 were devious and complicated. The major "misapplication" of funds was the transfer of debt from the Bank of the United States to other companies personally controlled by Marcus and Singer. This was done largely through a huge loan, eight millions in excess of the legal limit, and through the sale to these affiliates of a block of stock at almost twice its book-value. For the sake of simplicity, only these operations were brought up by the investigators, though it was known that there were numerous other questionable deals. Faced with such magnificent swindling, it will seem...
...spent his four years there. The storerooms, in particular, are kept up to the minute in new developments in the chemical world, and if one is fortunate enough to have made a favorable impression on the storeroom men (the autocrats behind the delivery shelf), there is no limit on the activities of imaginative students...