Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in history, the U.S. was getting ready to lower the ceiling on its national debt. With the blessing of Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, the Senate Finance Committee sent up a bill to reduce the limit from $300 to $275 billion.* Crowed billion-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, watchdog of U.S. finances: "A concrete step toward the end of deficit financing...
...ballot will consist of a total of six items, upon which students will be asked to vote yes or no, depending on willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
...year is especially ill-timed, coming at a moment when humane decency calls for a renewal of food rationing to help avert world famine. Without subsidies, food prices will rise, and farmers will hardly turn produce over to the UN at low prices when the sky is the limit on the home market...
Majority Whip John Sparkman, of Alabama, warned his colleagues: "If you change the age limit to 20, there just aren't any men left. . . . I want you to think...
After a lofty resolve to limit advertising to the bare mention of a sponsor's name, radio forgot its good resolution, went after advertising that has multiplied radio's receipts 60 times since 1927. Programming was concentrated in network headquarters, control and responsibility abdicated to a small group of advertisers. Says Siepmann: public service continued to diminish while profits soared. Example: in 1944, radio's net return before taxes ($90,000,000) was more than double the depreciated value of all its tangible property...