Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winter Weather would limit the sea-way's operation to barely half a year...
...domestic moratorium on all debts and taxes; 3) full payment of the War Debts to the U. S.; 4) Federal refinancing of the $9,000,000,000 worth of farm mortgages outstanding; 5) licensing all dealers in agricultural products; 6) higher income taxes; 7) a $500,000 limit on all inheritances; 8) the domestic allotment plan of price upping;* 9) consideration of producers' strikes. A red-hot Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson declared: "Low farm prices are the cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress...
...will hang there helplessly till, among other things, the war debts have been settled. Economists without exception as a means to recovery. The first fact they recognize is that Europe is simply unable to pay in toto, that the United States, if she continues to dun to the limit, will get notices of default, repudiations and lasting animosity. Moanwhile, before those notices come in, she will be driven to the wall with the rest of the western world. If, for instance, the United States demands payment in full from Great Britain, the results may be prostration of the pound, further...
Finances will be the new administration's first concern. Mr. Roosevelt will make an honest effort to balance the still unbalanced budget. A 25% reduction in Government expenses?about $1,000,000,000 is definitely promised but no time limit is set. Thus if 6% is cut from each successive annual budget the Democratic President will be able to claim at the end of his term a fulfillment of this platform pledge. Despite the National Economy League's clamor. President Roosevelt will not lead a movement against the $400,000,000 Allowance to veterans for miscellaneous illnesses which have...
...bout was no natural for Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with...