Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surgeons are reaching the limit of their endurance, and the overflow of wounded are waiting on the ground for their dressings to be changed. The water of the river in which bodies float can be filtered only in eyedropperfuls. There is just about enough water to give the men when they get delirious from thirst...
Three dailies were sold, and three folded as expenses far outran income. Last year at the annual I.T.U. convention, over Randolph's objections, the membership voted to limit borrowing for the papers from the union's pension and mortuary funds to $1,000,000 (it had already borrowed an estimated $2.5 million). Last week, getting ready for this year's convention, Randolph took drastic action to head off another stormy fight over the papers...
...other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk. But the biggest part of the change is the revolution in construction thinking; today, there is almost no project too big to tackle, no reasonable limit to reshaping the earth to make it more productive. Only 70 years ago, a project such as Brooklyn Bridge was considered a construction marvel. Today, Harry Morrison and the other builders consider far greater marvels just routine jobs...
...Time Limit. In Edmonton, Alberta, the Journal printed a classified ad: "Old beat-up house must be sold before it collapses. Give us a cash offer...
With a new and lighter shell and four new faces Coach Lee Rouner's varsity 150-pound crew gets the nod over M.I.T. in this afternoon's race at 4 P.M. A new rule upping the maximum weight limit to 160 pounds and raising the crew average from 150 to 155 pounds has brought Rouner several ex-heavy oarsmen...