Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future, O Business, gather ye together and raise Prices as high as possible, limit as much as possible the goods and services ye supply to the community; be inefficient, -- if ye can build a house with twenty men, take away their ladders and tools, thereby giving work to thousands; divide the work you have between as many workers as possible; and at the same time, of course, raise-wages. The less work per man which can be done, the better; the higher pay for the less work, the better...
Streamlining has apparently reached its limit for conventional, long-hooded cars. Full advantage has been taken of the possibilities for additional room provided by moving motors ahead over the front axle. Disc or steel artillery wheels are now almost universal. Spare tires have followed trunks into built-in compartments. Hydraulic brakes have largely superseded mechanical brakes. Overdrive or fourth speeds for use above 40 m.p.h. are optional or standard equipment on many makes. Some form of independent front-wheel suspension is available on about half the lines. Superchargers are still a specialty but automatic chokes are popular. Prices were...
From this Authority. Mr. Baldwin proceeded to that other British shibboleth, Precedent. "In the half century before [Macaulay] wrote, nearly every Parliament was brought to an end a year before the legal limit." he cried. "So [too] when you come to the brave days of Disraeli and Gladstone...
...Radiant City all over again. Speaking no English, he strode up & down with a box of colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...
...Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...