Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted 39-to-28 the Conference re port on the Bankhead Cotton Control Bill, virtually in the form in which it was originally passed by the House (to limit cotton production to 10,000,000 bales by imposing a 50% tax on any cotton farmers produce above their quotas - and no quota exemptions for small farmers...
...outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella's customary limit was 24,600 ft. but she had been specially primed for this flight. Up, up she pulled the Caproni and Donati, into thin air and a temperature of -68° F; eight miles, 8½ miles, just 180 ft. short of nine. Then Pilot Donati pointed to earth, came down...
...system, while not yet fully developed, is potentially one of the most admirable aspects of Harvard. Its particular virtue is that the student can get an exact return on the time he gives it, whereas no matter how much time he is given to most courses, there is a limit to what they have to offer. For the student who is interested in his field it is a source of chagrin that at present the work he does for his tutor should pass unnoticed, and it is unfair that the impecunious should be forced to forego much of this interesting...
...Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
Despite crossed fingers and toes, strong misgivings and grave doubts the Senate last week passed (46-to-39) a bill by the Brothers Bankhead of Alabama to limit cotton production by penalties instead of bribes...