Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plant which has been the subject and victim of more controversy than any other single element in the U.S. fighter picture. According to combat pilots recently back from fighting fronts, the Allison now going into U.S. Army fighters is reliable, efficient, easy to maintain, a good engine within its limits. Its main limit is that it does not deliver enough power above medium altitudes...
Says FORTUNE: "In one respect Walt Disney is a man of almost godlike power, for there is literally no limit to the things he can create on the screen. He can set forth anything from a world in evolution to the whirling of electrons invisible to the human eye. He can produce a mosquito big enough to tower over a village. . . . He can get inside a complex machine, slow down its action, explain its operation to apprentices with a clarity impossible in any other medium...
...increase of U.S. waterfowl by one-third (to upwards of 100,000,000) led Secretary of the Interior Ickes to stretch the open season to 70 days (60 last year), the daily shooting period to sunrise to sunset (sunrise to 4 p.m. in previous years). The daily bag limit remains the same...
...this flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge...
...maximum age limit for enlistment of Freshmen and Sophomores in Class V-1 of the Naval Reserve has been raised from 20 to 25 years, the Navy Department announced Saturday...