Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conservative Club voted nine to two in favor of the proposal, which would limit the treaty-making powers of the President, while the executive committee of the Young Democrats was unanimous against...
...average about 740,000 bbls. a day. Approximately half that amount will be Canadian and Venezuelan oil, which is exempt from these quotas. The remaining 370,000, Flemming calculates, must be cut by 7%, or 26,000 bbls. a day, to fall in line with Administration policy. The new limit must hold through first-quarter...
...University even begin to cope with the demand. Probably no one--in his wildest dreams--thinks that Harvard could admit the several thousand qualified applicants to the freshman class which it expects by 1965. But any enrollment short of that figure is just as arbitrary as the present limit...
...National Wheat Board, the only agency permitted by law to export wheat or ship it across provincial boundaries, in August 1954 placed a limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when...
Stopgap Plan. All across the prairies, farmers dug into savings for cash to meet their taxes, payments on land and farm machinery. In Sanford, Man., the local credit union closed its books when the outstanding loans reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their...