Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist bodies-may hold mortgages on its constituent churches so that they may not pass out of its control. Methodist churches are held by national bodies; Presbyterian churches by local trustees, reverting to local presbyteries if they are dissolved. Church laws apart, State laws of incorporation may limit a church to the activities for which it was specifically incorporated...
...Rhine has selected material in order to prove his own belief; he inferentially admits that he stops scoring when a subject's percentage of correct guesses falls below a certain limit...
...Franklin Roosevelt called another conference with railroad bigwigs to discuss the desperate railroad plight (see p. 64), the roads had their first good news in many a day. The House Interstate Commerce Committee killed a Senate bill to limit the length of freight trains to 70 cars-a law for which railroad labor lobbied long and earnestly but which would have cost the roads an estimated $125,000,000 to put into effect...
...practices promulgated by the central management group"; 2) to "permit regulation of the Western Electric Co. by the FCC as a public utility"; 3) to "fix temporary rates whenever it appears that the return on net book cost is excessive"; 4) "to regulate Bell System financing"; 5) "to limit the scope of Bell System activities to the communications field" (Bell System at various times has been involved in radio, cinema, artificial larynges, photoelectric eyes...
...rubbermen created the International Rubber Regulation Committee- a cartel that represents 98% of the world's rubber producers. The I. R. R. C.'s aims are two:1) to establish and maintain a base limit to rubber planting, 2) to fix quarterly quotas on the amount of this rubber that is marketable...