Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week no state law to limit oil production had ever been wholly effective because unscrupulous producers, large and small, persisted in bootlegging more than their legal quotas outside the state. This "hot oil," it was estimated, represented about one-fifth of the entire daily production of petroleum-enough to nullify any agreement between honest men to hold down output, stabilize prices. In violation of local proration regulations it was smuggled by secret pipe lines, shipped across state lines in regular tank cars. It was mixed with legitimately produced oil at refineries. Real enforcement of state quota laws required nothing...
Into effect last week went the League of Nations Treaty to limit the manufacture of narcotics throughout the world. Thirty-six nations have agreed to tell a central office in Geneva how much opium they need each year for legitimate medical and scientific work. (The U. S. needs about 150,000 Ib. yearly...
...eight largest narcotic manufacturing nations have agreed to limit production to match the requisitions filed in Geneva. The six: U. S., Great Britain, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, France. The others: The Netherlands and Japan...
...inmates of reformatories are momentarily exhausted, there is always the Archduke Ferdinand and the affair at Sarajevo. With this as a starting point, Storm at Daybreak relates the tragic romance of a man who falls in love with his best friend's wife, played to the limit against an Austro-Serbian background and splendidly directed by Richard Boleslavsky...
...since 1925. But State Banking Superintendent Broderick bluntly observed: "The mutual savings banks . . . for the first time in their history have access to the resources of the Federal Government." With his banks in an impregnable position, he promised promptly to remove all withdrawal restrictions in force since March. Withdrawal limit is now $250 per week with exceptions for emergencies including vacations...