Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft a reorganization plan that would wake up the U.S. people, produce war materials, aid all victims of aggression. The Judge was given complete freedom to rip OEM, OPM, NDAC, OPACS, etc., etc., etc., up & down & sidewise, if he saw fit; the thunderous sky was the limit...
...what the bill omitted was most important. Ignored entirely were wages, still rising nationally. Opposition by Virginia's crabbed old Carter Glass drove out a limit on installment credit. A provision for a ceiling on rising rents was jokered down to nothingness. (The bill limits rent-fixing power only to low-cost housing in defense areas-$15 per room per month, where rents have increased 10% in the last year...
...self-perpetuating board of directors has been ruled out by stipulation with the Department of Justice, and it is not allowed to limit its membership to songwriters with five tunes to their credit...
...alarm in Hague's indignation was the bill's provision that railroads should be reassessed, presumably at lower figures. Such a reassessment would force Hague to increase assessments on other Jersey City properties, already at the highest level in the U.S. An automatic lowering of the debt limit would follow, might bring Jersey City's fancy finances into the lurid red; for Hague has borrowed heavily in anticipation of railroad-tax collections...
...automobile manufacturers. The explosion was an order issued by Henderson: the industry would have to cut automobile and light truck production 50%, to about 2,400,000 units in the new model year. It could make 600,000 units a month in August, September and October. After that the limit was 200,000 a month. Only assembly lines for heavy trucks badly needed for transportation and Army could keep going top speed (600,000 last year...