Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illness; in Gnadau, Germany. In July 1916 he startled the world by running the Deutschland through the Allied blockade, bobbing up off the Virginia Capes with a valuable cargo of dyestuffs. While he unloaded and reloaded at Baltimore, eight Allied warships waited in fanwise formation outside the three-mile limit. The Deutschland slipped through them, carried Captain Koenig home to a triumph that was redoubled when he made another round trip to the U. S. the following autumn...
Last year's season of two months is retained. Only major change in this year's laws is a lowering of the daily bag limit on wild ducks from 15 to 12. Of these not more than eight may be canvasback, redhead, scaup, teal, shoveler or gadwall. (Last year's limit on this list, which included ringneck, was ten.) Brant may be shot on the Pacific Coast, not on the Atlantic where their principal food, eel grass, has almost disappeared (TIME, Aug. 21). Cackling geese are unprotected for the first time since...
Thus 50,000,000 bushels of export wheat were left to be supplied by the other considerable exporter, Russia. The Soviet delegate signed the agreement but refused to limit exports to a definite figure. Diplo- mats and wheat experts were not perturbed. Private investigations and the unofficial admissions of Russian delegates show that this year Russia will not possibly be able to export more than 50,000,000 bushels. Reason: famine, or as Moscow correspondents find it wiser to say, "mal-nutrition...
...tickets issued by most U. S. air transport lines is a contract clause reading: "In the event of the injury or death of the holder due to any cause for which this company is legally liable, the company's liability is limited to" $5,000 or $10,000. A 1931 award set the precedent that all planes operating on regular advertised schedules are "common carriers" like railroads, just as liable as railroads for the death or injury of passengers. Hence in most States the clause is meaningless except in a few Western States which limit liability in case...
Judge Buffington dismissed all this, ruled that a chartered plane is as much a common carrier as a regularly scheduled plane, a railroad train or a taxicab. He also denied to all common carriers the right to limit or dodge responsibility for passengers' death or injury in accidents. Lawyers took this to mean that private owners of planes transporting paying passengers are as liable as air transport companies...