Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's Fusionist Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was given: 1) permission to exempt from the city's constitutional debt limit a new bond issue up to $315,000,000 for a unified city-owned subway system; 2) a Home Rule provision restricting the power of the legislature to interfere in city affairs by passing "emergency laws...
...their workers there is no real limit to the hours of work. A majority of the countries of the world give an example of intense activity. These facts are a warning to France...
...road to safety is work. War rages in Spain and the Far East. In the centre of Europe the great powers review or try out their armed forces. For their soldiers and reservists there is no longer any real limit to the duration of military service...
...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...
From Washington came more spectacular news of the mischievous effects of limiting emergency power. Month ago, when a Lockheed 14-H (on Northwest Airlines' Flight Four from Seattle to Chicago) fetched up against a pine tree after taking off from the Billings Municipal Airport in Montana, all sorts of wild guesses were hazarded about the cause of the accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered...