Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance for sea air and recreation at their own expense. He carried on his work for five years. But a Los Angeles judge decided that Santa Monica harbor lay between two coastal headlands, ruled that the Rex and three other gambling ships were not outside the three-mile limit. They were seized and Tony all but dropped out of sight...
...incorporated his enterprise under Nevada statutes as the Sevenseas Trading & Steamship Co. In deference to sound sanitation practices he had 150 gleaming new toilets installed aboard the ship. Finally he had the white, neon-decorated floating casino towed 7.8 miles to sea-well past anybody's three-mile limit...
More cautious than the committee, Congress, before it went home a fortnight ago, voted to limit RFC's lease on life to June 30. By that time it hopes to make a complete investigation on its own of the agency's operations...
Atom Engines. At war's end rockets powered with chemical fuels (alcohol and liquid oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...Proclaimed drastic restrictions on 1946 duck hunting (under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act); among them: season cut from 80 to 45 days; daily bag limit cut from ten to seven; reason: too few ducks...