Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics had made strange bedfellows; neither Empire-minded diehards nor planned-economy socialists wanted to accept a loan which would limit Britain's economic independence by tying her to the vagaries of U.S. capitalism. (On the related issue of ratification of the Bretton Woods monetary agreements, the House vote was 314 for to 50 against.) Britons who reluctantly favored the loan said that it is sound only if the U.S. maintains full employment and buys enough goods from other nations to make it safe for them to reduce trade barriers. The thoughtful London Observer...
...limitation on passengers was Britain's means of effecting in practice what the U.S. had turned down in theory at last year's Chicago air conference. The British wanted to limit the total seating capacity on any international route to a level only slightly higher than the actual demand for seats. Thus Britain's BOAC would be assured a share of the business...
...present, the limitation will not hurt U.S. companies. Their DC-4s cannot carry more than 500 passengers weekly. But Pan Am and American expect to get bigger Constellations in the next few months. If the limitation is still in force, they will then be forced to fly some of their planes partly empty. Passengers who want to fly will have to pay higher rates and travel on BOAC's obsolescent Clippers. U.S. airmen hoped that the limitation would be temporary, and would be lifted when the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association meets in New York...
...define force-it is that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him. Somebody was here, and the next minute there is nobody here at all; this is a spectacle the Iliad never wearies of showing...
...jumping-off point of speculation upon the nature of man and the universe. Wherever Hellenism has penetrated, we find the idea of it familiar. . . . The Occident, however, has lost it, and no longer even has a word to express it in any of its languages: conceptions of limit, measure, equilibrium, which ought to determine the conduct of life are, in the West, restricted to a servile function in the vocabulary of technics. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in their apprenticeship to virtue...