Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into a dirty sky, floundered through fog and storm over the Alps and landed three hours ago at Le Bourget-where he had to lean against his ship to keep from toppling before...
...Sale or scrapping of the expensive airship R-100; limit of expenditures on airships...
...real buyer. Thus, if the mortgage were foreclosed and if the amount realized by the foreclosure sale were not enough to cover the mortgage, Mr. Donovan alone would be liable for the difference. It is a shrewd method which big real estate operators can only use to limit their legal liability on obligations they assume. So long as Mr. Donovan signed only first mortgage bonds, his career ran along smoothly enough. But of late he has been dabbling in second mortgages as well, and disaster has overtaken him. The holders of one of his second mortgages are suing...
...sinking. Secretary of the Navy Adams, minimizing the effect of the roll on their "excellent" gunfire record, declared: "No ship, yacht or cruiser is ever exactly right at first. We've been building yachts under racing rules for 25 years and haven't yet gotten the limit of speed possible. Warships are even harder. The way to build ships is to constantly keep building them instead of trying to build all of them at once...
Approved last week by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde but not at once published was a further revision of the Federal law on waterfowl. Last year the bag limit was reduced from 25 to 15 ducks per day, and four geese (including brant). The new revision shortens the gunning season in the North and West to ten weeks, in the southern Atlantic States to eight weeks: and further reduces the number of live goose decoys allowed to not more than ten. Cause for the change: serious drought in nesting areas, reported to have reduced this year's hatch of wildfowl...