Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures. Senator Caraway was the first Senator to formalize this speculative subject in a definite prophecy. Congresswoman McCormick's expenditures so far approximate $325.000. Some $300,000 was spent on the G. O. P. ticket headed by Secretary of Labor Davis. The Senate virtually set a campaign expenditure limit of $195,000 in the case of Michigan's Newberry (1922). Senator Caraway jibed that if Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Davis were elected and seated, the Senate would owe an apology to William Scott Vare and Frank Leslie Smith, Pennsylvania's and Illinois' famed Senators-reject...
...bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff who has publicly boasted that he alone was responsible for the death of General Protogeroff, that not a Bulgarian official dared...
...powder, soda. When poured out in thick liquid form, the presence of the aluminum powder in an alkaline solution causes a chemical reaction, liberates hydrogen, forms a cellular structure. Within a half-hour after pouring, aerocrete begins to puff up. At the end of an hour, expansion reaches its limit, the material hardens. By varying the amount of ingredients, expansion can be controlled, may vary from 50% to 150% of original volume...
...commission. The White House conference on home building & home ownership, composed of representatives of 19 national organizations under Secretary of Commerce Lament, will, at the President's request, make "a study of the problems presented . . .; with the hope of inspiring better organization and removal of influences which seriously limit the spread of home ownership." Subjects: finance, design, equipment, city planning, transportation. President Hoover wanted to know why second mortgages on homes now often cost 25% per year...
...Woodbury, Vt., one William Pickett was apprehended in possession of 60 fingerling trout (legal limit: 25 fish at least 6 in. long). His sentence, passed last week: 664 days in gaol...