Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First come first served will be the dispensing principle still in force, with a limit of one admission to a customer...
...looked as if the worst were over, for the time being. Cotton prices, which had cracked wide open a fortnight ago, had steadied. But last week prices of cotton futures plummeted again. For two days they dropped the daily legal limit: $10 a bale. As December futures worth 39? a pound four weeks ago, hit 29?, the panicky exchanges suspended trading for a day, for the third time in two weeks...
...consumers were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished textiles, thus permit mills to extend their inventories. Walter F. George of Georgia wanted all OPA ceilings taken off cotton goods...
When it came to evening dresses, U.S. designers had gone on a spree. Necklines were down to the legal limit, tops were frankly lacy. Designs ranged from elaborate peacockery to sexy sheaths of black sequins, to puffs of lace topped with sparkling rhinestones...
Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...