Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...risen by 500,000 bbl. a day in the past five years (see chart) while daily U.S. production has gone up 1,100,000 bbl. But crude imports were scheduled to hit a record 1,200,000 bbl. daily this month, or 16% of U.S. production (v. the 12% limit set by the quotas). As a result of the foreign competition, Texas producers are selling about $1,000,000 less oil a day than they did in May, will work their wells an alltime low of 13 days this month. The quotas are also intended to encourage new exploration...
...being too provincial and suggested that he should get out and see the world. But at this Vag would laugh. "After Cambridge and Boston, what is there left to see?" he always replied. Oh, he had gone down to New Haven once or twice, but that was about the limit of his long-distance travelling...
...cost-price squeeze by flying more efficient planes with more passengers each year. Now their rate of growth is leveling off. While passenger volume climbed 18% in 1955, it increased only 13% in 1956, will probably gain only 10% this year. Moreover, the airlines have reached the economic limit of efficiency with their present fleets. For the first time in commercial air operations, the most modern piston-engine plane, Douglas Aircraft's DC-7, cannot haul enough passengers far enough and fast enough to compensate for its higher initial cost and increased repair and gas bills...
...issued this week, the Twentieth Century Fund declared that U.S. productive power has grown at such a spectacular rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...
...Program. One man with a program is President Pedro Aramburu, who pushed through the assembly plan in hopes that the group will be elected in orderly fashion July 28 and get to work Sept. 1 on an overhaul of the constitution. The Aramburu regime wants 1) a one-term limit for Presidents, 2) curbs on the President's power to legislate by decree when the Congress is adjourned, 3) repeal of the President's right to replace provincial governors at will, and 4) a stronger civil service system. Such a document, says he, would be "a death certificate...