Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Would Limit Volunteering
...Women's Voluntary Services, Red Cross, and local organizations bent on everything from driving ambu lances to shooting down parachutists-this bill looked like the answer. Day after Mrs. Rogers introduced it, her mailbag bulged enthusiastically. The only kicks came from women over 45, who wanted the age limit raised...
...machinery could be used for munitions making; now some Detroit engineers think 50-75% of their machinery can be useful. Last week auto and parts makers set up the Automotive Council for War Production, announced its sole purpose was "pushing the industry's war work to the limit" through joint research, patent exchange, pooled facilities...
Impressed with bicycling's possibilities in a new-earless U.S., OPM promised the industry a limited allocation of steel and rubber. The manufacturers in turn agreed that they could produce 1,000,000 bicycles in 1942 (1941 output: 1,800,000) and save 30,000 tons of steel. Method: make two models (male & female) instead of 35; limit them to 34 lb. (present average: 49 lb.); throw out spotlights, battery tanks, other gadgets...
Commodity brokers had a better time; commodities have less to fear from taxes, more to gain from inflation. All grain futures rose the maximum daily limit; world sugar picked up ten points, cocoa gained 30. After the close traders heard that the Commodity Exchange Administration would freeze wheat, soybean, butter, egg and flaxseed futures at the Monday level...