Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, it was a different story. Moved out of the nightspots before the clock struck. New Yorkers and the hordes of visitors (including thousands of servicemen on pass) swarmed into the streets. Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit. Its streets were jammed for hours past midnight by drunks who had downed too many too fast, by soberer folks who thought they had no place else to go. Speakeasies began to spring up, and Manhattan's policemen began to talk worriedly of the return of the Prohibition...
However, there is a limit to all things. For . . . the "Tobacco Road Gang" I would suggest ... a parachute and an airplane trip?and let them float gently down onto the soil of Japan. Oregon, Ill. RAYMOND BUKER...
Many a scientific cloud on the horizon promises, or threatens, to revolutionize postwar living. One is the "microwave." Microwaves lie in the largely uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar, and most of the wartime discoveries about them are still military secrets. But radio engineers have found their potentialities dazzling. This week plain citizens were given a glimpse of what the engineers envision...
Also tied up by the Senate committee were four proposals to limit the President and Vice President to one term; others to abolish the closed shop, to reorganize the Cabinet. So far as the House was concerned, all these could wait, but the Fulbright resolution was something else again. If it could not be submitted to the voters, it was at least going to get some public discussion...
...solution discussed at Mexico City was to limit the World Security Council's authority to matters of obvious world concern, exclude the Council from primarily regional affairs. In Big Power practice, the U.S. would then decide where the World Council's interest begins and ends. But-could the U.S. reserve this right without granting Soviet Russia's right to similar jurisdiction in western Asia or in eastern Europe? Pondering this question, close to home, the U.S. may view parallel British and Russian anxieties in a new light...