Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands or feet into an X-ray machine and watch the waggling shadows of their bones on a fluoroscopic screen. X-rays are literally death rays which kill flesh when too powerful or upon prolonged exposure. Apparently the workmen X-rayed themselves for several minutes. Skilled X-ray technicians limit exposure to only a few seconds...
What Donald Davis does from now on is almost a sky's-the-limit proposition. His potential job is to make one big war-winning whole out of the individual production demands of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW and civilian supply. Now when he says "let's walk around that idea," burly Outdoor-man Davis is talking about the longest walk he ever set out to take...
...biggest bond issue ever, so close to half a billion dollars was added to their free cash by a cut in their requirements. As it becomes necessary to have them buy more Government bonds their reserve requirements can still be cut much lower, possibly to the statutory limit...
...them dead in street clothes. Dotty got off to an early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit-she cold-shouldered an enthusiastic Chicagoan who wanted to swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante...
...Senator George, "A large group of key management personnel in industry are just about ready to throw up the sponge and join the Army as buck privates." Appointed last week, a Senate subcommittee is working out an answer to the problem of giving business some end to uncertainty, some limit to the number of times a renegotiation board can reopen a contract...