Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storage battery factory. Some Government enthusiasts were talking rosily of finding as many as 500 plants that U.S. owners would be glad to sell to eager Latin American buyers (no effort is being made to take plants that are not willingly sold), but lack of shipping is apt to limit that sharply. Nonetheless, where a U.S. plant can provide an essential commodity that would otherwise have to be continuously shipped in manufactured form, U.S. authorities would now prefer to send the whole plant in the first place...
Aware of the limitations of shipping space, the prospectus is cautious as to what the U.S. can give Brazil now in the way of machine tools which Brazil needs if she is to increase her industrial output immediately. But in terms of the future the prospectus goes the limit-provided that Brazil can get from the U.S. one priceless intangible: technical skill and know-how; and one tangible: capital equipment. How she is to get these two things, and whether her development will involve American private enterprise or will be a huge Government project, Engineer Cooke leaves extremely vague...
Just as bluntly the committee listed other faults and put them right up to Jerry Land. Samples: 1) South Portland Ship's contract for yard facilities has no limit on time, almost none on costs; 2) the company lacked skilled managers, promoted green laborers to superintendents in five months; 3) because of sloppy records 75 carloads too much lumber were delivered and had to be paid for by the Maritime Commission; 4) as much as $1,500 a month each was paid for renting cranes, pumps, compressors on a time-used basis but no time record.was kept...
...high-salaried men the Treasury eased its $25,000 limit on net 1942 salaries for which employer and employe signed bona fide contracts before Oct. 4. This was a swell break for Hollywood...
...lesser lady than Joan might be unnerved by the verbal shellacking dished out to her by the Vallee scripts. Joan says she finds solace in a whacking pay check. Her income from radio and movies (prior to the $67,000 limit): about $100,000 a year...