Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emphasized enough So that the farmer or rancher is lucky to break even on feed costs, and where drought conditions exist, is losing his shirt. It takes just so much and so long to produce beef ready for market, and without price support, you're going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial...
...when the bonds were issued last week, they brought the federal debt just $25 million under the $275 billion limit, so close that the debt could easily spill over. So Humphrey dug into the Treasury's "free gold"-the profit realized in 1934 when President Roosevelt devalued the dollar (by increasing the price of gold from $20.67 to $35 an ounce). Using $500 million of the $1 billion left in the hoard, Humphrey bought U.S. securities from the Federal Reserve System and cut the debt by $500 million...
...Humphrey's balancing act is far from over. From here on, he can keep under the limit only by cutting into...
...with spending higher than receipts between now and year's end, the cash balance (which includes the free gold) will dwindle to around $2 billion, the minimum the Treasury needs to operate. One of the first jobs of the new Congress will be to raise the debt limit...
...powerful 'internal' forces. The first is an often legitimate failure of the student to commit himself to the work Yale offers; the second allied to this failure of interest, is the great complex problem of student maturity, or lack of it. Taken together these forces put a definite limit on Yale's effectiveness in the early years of college...