Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today the United States enters its ninth day without price controls of any kind. Except in those instances where governors of states have used extraordinary war powers to keep ceilings on rents, the roof has been completely ripped off the price structure and the sky is now the limit. President Truman's veto of the emasculated OPA bill a week ago was perhaps the bravest thing he has done since entering the White House. But revived hopes for a genuinely effective price control bill have faded once again in the face of amendments to the new bill to exempt...
...need them, and I don't think they need the bill at all with the voluntary enlistments they are getting." This week, as the bill went to a joint House-Senate conference committee, the best anyone hoped for was a compromise which would set the lower age limit for draftees...
...Limit the Trips. Last week CAB ordered all nonscheduled operators to register with the Board. And it defined nonscheduled operations so as to exclude any company which led the public to believe that it was operating regularly between any two points. Example: Trans-Marine Airlines, Inc. had been running regular flights from New York to Cape Cod (TIME, July 16). CAB ordered Trans-Marine to discontinue the operation, warned other lines not to engage in similar practices...
...activity, activity unlike any seen since the middle thirties. The battle of tutorial moved toward a climax, then seemed to turn favorably at last. After weeks of Student Council and CRIMSON fire at moves intended by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to cut tutorial instruction even below the limit specified in the curtailing vote of last December, things came to a head when President Conant refuted departmental claims that financial stringency was the reason for further reductions...
...Voorhees, is: How can costs and profits be covered when some costs, such as wages, have been arbitrarily shoved up without the increased production necessary to cover them? "A portion of the public," said he, "has been made to believe that wages in large industry can be advanced without limit and without effect on price...