Word: limiteds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...solution is simple. Limit subsidy maximum to $5,000 per farm enterprise; henceforth make public all subsidy payments, locally. Then listen to the yowls drown out the fallout...
...Speed Limit. Railroaders hope that the recent 4%-to-7% rate increases granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission will help to balance out high costs. Yet many presidents are leary of hiking rates to the limit for fear of driving shippers to other carriers. Instead, they are betting on a reversal of the year's first-half trend in the fall, when the economy traditionally enjoys an upturn after the summer slump. And they are going ahead full power with modernization programs designed to trim operating costs still further, will invest an estimated $273 million in the third quarter...
...other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...
...holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing against the walls. Women fainted in the aisles. A doctor was knocked unconscious by a tumbling suitcase as he treated his sixth patient...
...stewardesses, all appearing as witnesses against the bill, who brought in a pro-wet petition from 83 others. "I've never had a complaint about drinking," said Gene Rotroff. "I've had more about cigar smoking." Martha Ann Alexander pointed out that "even with the two-drink limit, I have found an increasing number of passengers bringing bottles on board.'' Michele Harvey told Thurmond she favors serving liquor "because most of the passengers like it." But don't stewardesses find their barmaid duties distasteful? pursued Thurmond. Answered Stewardess Harvey, a tapered, silvery blonde: "The ambitious...