Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...description in the annual report of the Carnegie Institution of an improved type of photo-electric cell which he and his assistants have developed. Used with Mt. Wilson's world's-largest telescope, it will extend man's range of heavenly observation from the present limit of about 25,000,000 light years to some...
Bounding to his feet after Sir John sat down, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga cried: "Practical men, whose political shortsightedness is incurable, would like to limit our efforts by saying 'Provided we can reach a practical solution, let us pass a sponge over the rest.' That is to say. 'Provided I can receive a dividend this year, never mind about the capital.' To this madness, Spain desires to say 'No!' The League Covenant will perish if we permit Chinese Manchuria to become Japanese Manchukuo...
...economy which is to be criticized but the features of the educational system which have suffered most from that economy. For in many instances, the physical adjuncts remain in full force, untouched by financial retrenchment, while appropriations for the payment of teachers have been cut to the limit. Such a method is to be expected from an age and a people that regards the physical element as more important than the intellectual in allotting educational costs. But the attitude is contradictory to any sound evaluation of fundamentals...
...Federation is pledged to go the limit in purging itself of racketeering. Our policy is to protect members from racketeering in any form. Racketeering has manifested itself in many lines. There are, no doubt, some who have fastened themselves upon the American labor movement and are exploiting hardworking, honest members. Upon these leeches we will have no mercy...