Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small and middle-sized powers made a little progress-a very little-in their efforts to win a larger share of authority in the forthcoming world organization. But every move to spread the power among all the member nations was offset by a move to limit its actual use by or against any nation, big or small. At the showdowns, the U.S. was as sensitive...
This would automatically give FPC a big voice in the Chicago Corp.'s affairs. More important, it would limit much of the profits from the corporation's chance-taking to 6½%, not enough to make it worth-while to go on taking long chances...
...current procedure involves a multiple system of control. It falls short of the demands of the consumer. It marks out a rough limit of tolerance, and it reveals, at least for the time, the temper of the personnel charged with administration. This raises an issue, opens or reopens a file, leads to a preview of complaints, revives a controversy of the past, invites an independent investigation...
Enlisted men had more inflexible ideas about how their wives should be spending their spare time: movies, luncheons, bridge parties, they thought, should be the limit. Officers, for the most part, were more tolerant: they would not object to their wives going around with men so long as the relationship was strictly platonic...
With orchestra contracts as yet unsigned, plans are not yet final, but it has been voted to limit the attendance to 300 couples, with dress optional between summer and winter formal. Limited to a $500 orchestra ceiling, the committee is still looking for the right group and may have to switch the date of the dance to May 19 if orchestra contracts so require...