Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons with 6.1-inchers. Continuing, Lord Monsell proposed that further building of London Naval Treaty "A" Cruisers (10,000 tons) be postponed for five years; that distinction between light cruisers and destroyers be abolished and that 8,000 tons with 6.1-in. guns be made the limit in this unified class; that the present submarine maximum of 2.800 tons with 6.1-in. guns be reduced to 2,000 tons with 5.1-inchers. Up popped the French and Italian delegates. In quick succession they said their governments would have preferred a British proposal to limit capital ships to 27,000 tons...
...which is an asset. Thus $25,000 worth of new credit money is turned loose in the country, passing from bank to bank in the form of checks. Not until the borrower pays off his loan does that money disappear from circulation. Provided he has enough capital, the only limit on a banker's power to create credit is the amount of his reserves. At present U. S. banks have excess reserves of more than $3,000,000,000, and if they could find enough borrowers they could conceivably create some $30,000,000,000 of credit. That would...
...jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would no more have dreamed of sitting on a jury with the "white captains" than they would of walking up and slapping the devil in the face, escaped from the courthouse by their own devices or were eliminated...
...this is pretty tough for me to have to go after my own party this way, but I submit that there is a limit to blind loyalty. ... I suggest for the members of my party on Capitol Hill here in Washington that they take their minds off the Tuesday that follows the first Monday in November. ... I ask them to read from the Holy Scripture the paragraph of the Prodigal Son, and to follow his example. 'Stop wasting your substance in a foreign land and come back to your father's house...
...Africa with game reserves in which hunting will be wholly or partially prohibited. Besides the 21 beasts, birds and plants absolutely protected everywhere, the Convention listed another 22 that may be hunted only with special licenses that will be nearly impossible to get from local governments. These licenses will limit the bag to a specified number of a specified animal for a limited time in a limited area for a satisfactory reason, such as supplying an accredited museum...