Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to limit crop production, produce an "ever-normal granary." In return for a promise to grant loans to Southern cotton growers, both House and Senate promised to make this the first item of business in their next session...
...wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance," presumably a guarantee that Congress will pass the kind of strict crop control law which he desires...
...year, 3% debentures. To start, the famed Woolworth Store No. 1,000, on Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Manhattan will be abandoned in favor of a 5½-story, air-conditioned, granite and steel store now abuilding on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street. Ranking with the abandonment of price limit and the borrowing of new capital as a sign of the times, is the fact that this new store will not have even the famed red-banded front...
...wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments. Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this was an experiment, and that all experiments were costly. . . . Why, may I ask, is the building of a house an experiment? People have built houses from the beginning...
...weakened was Senator Byrd's argument for his amendment when Senators found on their desks what newshawks considered one of the boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...