Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he, "We can sum it up this way: Our pricing policies should encourage the fullest possible production of goods and services at the lowest possible prices to the consumer. Unless American industry produces to the limit of its powers, there will be increased danger of depression and eventual collapse...
...which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated for Mayor...
...revenue laws, 2) "more experience in contract negotiation," and 3) higher income-tax returns than hesitant Henry Morgenthau dreamed of. Two months ago the U.S. national debt reached $201 billion; by next June it will be $251.3 billion-just $9 billion short of the legal limit (which Congress can always raise), but $6 billion less than President Roosevelt prophesied. Nonetheless, it is ten times as big a debt as in Andrew Mellon's day, when U.S. citizens still shuddered over the $25-billion debt piled up in World...
...span, now 63, has increased 15 years since 1900, that already there are tens of thousands of people who live to be over 100 without half trying. Nature, says he, seems to have intended man to live at least a century, and Dr. Gumpert sees no reason why the limit cannot be raised...
...with terrible reality from Goebbels' speech and subsequent decrees was one crushing fact: the last vestiges of normal life were about to disappear. Theaters, cinemas, cabarets and concert halls, where men & women could forget a while, would be closed. The twelve-hour workday would become standard. The age limit for women required in industry would be raised from 45 to 50. Sixteen-year-old boys would be sent to the front after 60 days of training. Doctors were advised to be chary in issuing certificates of labor exemption for health reasons...