Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...
...tightening of enlistment rulings was apparently the result of high volunteer figures for the last few months and the limit of 677,000 officers and men--already reached by the Army--set by President Truman in his budget message...
...present one-hour limit on side streets doesn't give the average shopper enough time to make all his purchases without coming back to renew the meter," Dow explained. A two-hour limit might also attract new customers to Square stores, since it would be possible for them to park their cars a few blocks away and make all their purchases within the meter time-limit, he added...
...course offered to the general student is English N: public speaking. Student demand for this course has been steadily increasing so that it now exceeds the facilities. The nature of a speech course demands small sections; the Department's allocations for speech limit the course to 75. As many students had to be turned away from the course last fall as were allowed to take it. Even if University officials do not consider speech an important subject, they must at least recognize its basic value to the extent of giving all those who want this instruction the chance...
...Defense Department had previously asked Truman for $23 billion to keep up an Army of 900,000, as authorized by Congress. Truman announced a $15 billion limit a month ago and quoted a slightly lower figure in today's message...