Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible to wreck it by insisting on their rights to maintain quota restrictions and subsidies for their farmers. Suddenly came the miracle. An international conference actually agreed to do something, accomplished something, was ready to sign something, all within five days. Delegates of the four exporting countries agreed to limit their combined wheat exports for 1933-34 to 560,000,000 bushels, in the following year to cut exports 15% below the average exportable production of 1931-33. The importing nations agreed to reduce their wheat tariffs and quotas as soon as the international price of wheat reaches 63.08 gold...
...refinancing operations. On that date it had sold $1,188,901,650 worth of U.S. securities- $835,036,650 in 3¼% bonds and $353,865,000 in 1⅜% Treasury notes. The bond issue was announced for only $500,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 14) but this limit was greatly exceeded to accommodate an army of small investors whose subscriptions were allotted in full. After the Treasury had deducted its exchange of old securities for new, met a batch of maturing obligations and paid a small slice of interest on the Public Debt, it had a cash surplus...
...shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited by the Treaty of St. Germain to 30,000 soldiers who must enlist for twelve years) is far too small to guard Austria's frontiers. In Paris shaggy Premier Edouard Daladier, outraged by Germany's reaction to the French protest last week, gave correspondents to understand that France will...
Researchers Errington and Bennett conclude that about one duck is lost for each one bagged. Chief blame they lay on hunters' laziness in looking for wounded birds, their tendency to try overlong shots. They recommend a 50-yard range limit, more use of dogs as retrievers...
...value of their Navy contracts totaled $129,777,600, although in some instances final costs were to be adjusted to meet shifting price levels. To build this new fleet would require the services of 18,400 shipwrights. When completed, it would bring the U. S. Navy close to the limit set by the London Naval Treaty. Of the 21 ships contracted for, 16 would be constructed out of the $238,000,000 cash allotment to the Navy from the Public Works Fund, five out of regular annual appropriations. Total expenditures for fiscal 1934 were estimated at $86,000,000. Contracts...