Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America old and wornout, as the New Dealers tell us? Look to the beaches of Normandy for the answer. Look to the reaches of the wide Pacific. ... I say to you: our country is just fighting its way through to new horizons. The future of America has no limit...
...That speed varies according to temperature; at cold, high altitudes sound slows down. At sea level, sound moves at about 760 m.p.h.; above 35,000 feet, at about 660 m.p.h. At these speeds, air molecules bunch so solidly and resistance becomes so great that sound waves reach their speed limit...
...Announced that 1,000 refugees from Italy would be brought to this country and temporarily housed at Fort Ontario, N.Y. These would be all the refugees brought to this country, he added. ¶Signed a bill which raised the U.S. debt limit to an astronomical $260 billions, and, at the same time, lowered the three-months-old cabaret tax from...
First outcry against the Great Blueprint came not from U.S. internationalists, who still seemed willing to trust Mr. Roosevelt to any limit-but from the small nations of Europe. Cried Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens: "The smaller states are made to feel the burden of war no less, and often more acutely, than the very great powers. It seems reasonable, therefore, that they should have their due voice in attempts to prevent...
...only to 19 isolated "trouble spots" will thereafter bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...