Word: limited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered $15,000 for a new base if the city would give $10,000. The city agreed. But an architect's committee argued so long that the time limit for the city appropriation was exceeded and the Pulitzers had to make up the $10,000 difference. Finally selected was a waterproof Italian marble from Trieste which would not crack or chip. But it cost $35,000. Once again the Brothers Pulitzer made up the $10,000 difference. In less than 20 years they had spent $45,000 of their own on their father's $50,000 statue...
...news from Canada became alarming, did Liverpool traders begin to push the price. October wheat at Liverpool last week reached 86˘. Some U. S. speculators were proclaiming last week that in the domestic market, which is effectively isolated from the world by a 42˘ tariff, the sky was the limit. Grain experts felt that U. S. wheat prices at present crop estimates might go to $1.25 but not much higher...
...does Editor & Publisher tread upon a toe within the industry. Perennial targets on its editorial page are Radio, press agentry, censorship, Freedom of the Press, persons who think advertising rates should be lowered or telegraph rates upped. A newsboy at 7, Editor Pew lately plumped for the 14-year limit for newsboys, against the publishers' lobby. He detests most gossip columnists, calls Walter Winchell a "journalistic gangster...
...conclusion, Sir John read to the House a cablegram from Premier Mussolini throwing Italy's full weight into the scale with Britain, France and Russia. Playing his stern godfather role to the limit Sir John cabled to Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
...negligible demand from business for long term financing?due to the Securities Act and general fear that the New Deal will limit profits, regulate business, boost costs, compete with established industry...