Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could not evade, as Stapp puts it, "that one stubbornly unchanging item peeping forlornly from among the titanium rivets: man, M1, the same yesterday, today and forever; fallible, vulnerable, incurably addicted to errors, and, above all, pathetically mortal...
CHRYSLER CORP., scrambling to recover the 25% of the auto market it once had, will gradually break up the dual lines, e.g., DeSoto-Plymouth, Dodge-Plymouth, among its 10,000 dealers. To boost sales of each of its lines, Chrysler plans eventually to limit all dealers to one kind...
Last week, as Peter's year of dietary anguish ended, the Civil Service Commission met to consider his case. Although Kane was nearly 40 lbs. over the prescribed limit, Dr. David Katsuki, the city physician, recommended that he be reinstated. The commission sympathetically agreed, restored him to full duty. But, lest Peter Kane should dream again of any poi except poi in the blue Hawaiian sky, the commission had a stern warning: he must be weighed monthly, and if his poundage exceeds 261 lbs. by so much as one ounce, he will be suspended without pay until he makes...
There are other limitations. Commercial TV will broadcast 52½ hours a week (compared to some 130 hours in the U.S.). The screen must be left blank on Sunday mornings so as not to compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports...
...charged with excitement. Sheree is accidentally hypnotized by a student-and remains in that state for most of the picture. Betty cuddles up with an overage student (Robert Cummings) who stays on in school because his grandfather's will provides for his education but sets no time limit. Student Orson Bean falls in love with Sheree, and School President Charles Coburn sets out to woo Bean's millionaire father ("He's been in the East somewhere," says Coburn thoughtfully. "Arabia. Persia, one of those Yvonne de Carlo countries...