Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days, the engineers told him to ship a heavy solution, halt the tankers at the three-mile limit and dilute with water. This Charlie Payson did, but the engineers later sued for $500,000 as their pay for the plan. Charlie Payson stoutly maintained that the scheme was developed in their own laboratories. The suit was settled out of court. Meantime the tariff was changed to spike just...
...Governor White, refusing to declare a bank holiday, prepared legislation to hold withdrawals down to the level of the liquid assets. On his own hook the Mayor of Dayton ordered a three-day moratorium. In Cleveland, Akron, Lima, Canton, and many a smaller city, bankers agreed among themselves to limit withdrawals to a mere dribble of cash. The good-natured, holiday-spirited crowd which thronged the great lobby of Cleveland's Union Trust Co. to get what money it could was typical of similar gatherings in hard-hit States...
Exit Japan. In loud, decisive tones Yosuke Matsuoka read to the League Assembly milder words from Tokyo than had been expected. He implied rather than announced Japanese withdrawal from the League. "The Japanese Government are obliged," he read, "to feel that they have now reached the limit of their endeavors to cooperate with the League regarding the Chino-Japanese differences...
...Czechoslovakia have long been loosely associated in the so-called "Little Entente." At Geneva last week Foreign Minister Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania and Foreign Minister Boske Yevtitch of Jugoslavia signed with Foreign Minister Dr. Benes of Czechoslovakia a joint treaty of military, political and economic alliance running without limit. "It is eternal!" cried Dr. Benes. "It provides our countries at last with a stable, organic base...
...Captain white, who swims the 220 and the backstroke, and in Lewis, star sprinter, Brown has two swimmers capable of taxing the Crimson mermen to the limit. Although B. S. wood '33 beat Lewis in the century, the latter did 54 1-5 seconds last Saturday, lowering his own intercollegiate mark. E. E. Stowell '24, intercollegiate backstroke champion, will find worthy opposition in White and Stanton...