Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only last year Chrysler Corp. was a conspicuous example of profitless prosperity under the New Deal. With a 52% increase in total sales it actually earned 27% less than in 1933. This year Messrs. Chrysler, Zeder and Hutchinson cut retooling costs to the limit, eliminated certain gadgets from Plymouth, trimmed management expenses in general. The rich fruit of this cost-stabilizing policy was apparent in the percentage comparisons of this year's earnings which showed that while dollar sales increased 30%, dollar profits jumped 126%. Last week the board of directors voted a regular quarterly dividend...
...piped Nebraska's Norris: "The reason for such a provision is not the ancient, barbaric rule that a king could do no wrong, but a modern rule of self-preservation. ... If there is no limit on the right of a citizen to sue the Government, I do not see how the Government can exist...
...Only the first six magnitudes are visible to the naked eye. Limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope is the 20th magnitude. †Brother John is now Professor John Shapley, Chairman of University of Chicago's Department...
...that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise. "I'm sorry, Tew," was the reply, "but I'm afraid you've reached your limit." Presumably unqualified for further advancement in Goodrich, he walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. where he got a better job at a better salary. Four years later Diamond Rubber was merged with Goodrich and young Tew found himself back with his old company. Alert, ambitious, quick-thinking, he was soon...
Japanese Army chiefs, to whom the Divine Emperor has all the sanctity of God, promptly ordered Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to order Editor Tu Chung-yuan of New Life punished to the extreme limit of Chinese law in cases of defamation. In Shanghai last week these Japanese orders were carried out by a cringing panel of Chinese judges, scared to death because 200 Chinese students pack-jammed their courtroom, shrieking "There is no justice in China! Death to our judges! Down with Japanese Imperialism! Long live Chinese Communism...