Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk came, but no Japanese bombers, the dugouts emptied. For months Chungking merchants have done their business late in the afternoon, opening shop at 4 p. m., in order to limit the danger from air raids. That night the life of the old grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas...
...hrer announced formally that he considered at an end two treaties: 1) the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935, whereby Germany agreed to limit her navy to 35% of Britain's; 2) the ten-year German-Polish non-aggression treaty signed in 1934. The Führer's reason: Great Britain was "encircling" Germany with alliances (including one with Poland...
...Deal's first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...
...owned U. S. securities from cracking the market, already depressed by widespread bearishness on domestic business prospects, obvious aids would be: 1) to relax margin requirements to protect investors; 2) to further ease credit through the Federal Reserve; 3) to put a floor under Exchange prices by setting a limit on each day's fluctuation, such as the Government now does in the wheat market. One precaution Administration leaders took last week was to prod Congress into extending until 1941 the President's powers over the dollar and the $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund...
Brayton believes that most House men prefer to limit their participation intramural sports to one or two days each week, and that they would not wish to shoulder the burden of the intensified program suggested by the Council. "Cross country," he said "would be a farce for a man who practiced once or twice a week." It is true, however, that cross country would probably be retained along with track as a major sport...