Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from extending for two more years the International Wheat Agreement (drawn up in 1933 to limit wheat production and export), the 25 delegates from 16 nations* did nothing last week except view the outlook with much alarm. Conference experts figured that the world harvest, excluding the Soviet Union, China and Manchukuo, would total 4,205,000,000 bu., 216,000,000 bu. above the all-time record set in 1928. Especially ominous was the prospect for the U. S. Once a major wheat exporter (200,000,000 bu.), the U. S. last year sold only...
...Britain and France want to limit proposals to the handling of. refugees from Germany alone. The U. S. insists that the conference constitute a permanent body to handle not only the German problem but any other refugee question that may arise, from such potential refugee producers as Italy, Poland and Rumania...
...part capacity, as it generally does. Dr. Nourse believes that if industry always operated at full capacity, the U. S. economic problem would be solved. The industrialist reluctant to cut prices as a means to this end might take a leaf from the farmer's book. Unable to limit his production so quickly, the farmer lets his output seek its own price level...
...steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
...Proposed further limitations of speculative trading in grain futures. Under the Commodity Exchange Act this right is given to a Commodity Exchange Commission consisting of the Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce and the Attorney General. The Secretary of Agriculture is chief and has under his direction the Commodity Exchange Administration, now headed by a heavy-set crop technologist of Swiss descent, Dr. Joseph William Tell Duvel, who has been with the Department of Agriculture off and on since 1902. Last week Dr. Duvel submitted the CEA's proposals for speculative limits. Thereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that...