Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington in 1922 the five powers agreed to limit the capital ships of their fleets. In London in 1930 three of these powers grudgingly agreed to limit their cruisers and smaller vessels (TIME, April 28, 1930, et ante). This week's London Conference is necessitated by the fact that the 1922 and 1930 agreements are about to expire. Few of those attending it have any hope of winning even a grudging agreement. The three U. S. delegates, backed up by 17 technical experts, sailed with two aims: 1) to secure a treaty which will entail no further naval construction...
Equally inane is the suggestion that Congress in its next session limit the amount of our exports to a peacetime average. This meets every moral requirement, of course, but will do little to keep America out of war. If the war spreads to Europe and blockades are established, there is as much risk in shipping a barrel of oil or a bale of cotton as there would be in a whole shipload of the commodities. This country wants a program of strict and workable neutrality in which all exports whatsoever to a country at war shall be forbidden...
...last March chartered the 4,653-ton S. S. North Haven, sent her on a three-month expedition at a cost of $2,000,000 to establish airports at Midway, Wake and Guam. As each base was completed, the Sikorsky Clipper flew to it, tested its facilities to the limit (TIME, April 29, May 27, June 24, Sept. 2). Flawless as these flights have been, Pan American still regards its training incomplete, will not carry passengers until the whole route has been flown five times. Probable cost of one-way ticket...
...Whoever can tell a 12-gauge shotgun from a 10 or 16-gauge gun at that distance is indeed an expert. The riding boots are of course ridiculous-but hunting is not always a matter of walking a great distance. To limit "up the trail" hunting to rabbits and birds is as presumptive as calling the hound a fox hound. More likely, it is a rabbit hound which many eastern hunters find quite indispensable. The red-mittencd gentleman's gesture might fit in many a hunting yarn...
...program", but a mass of conflicting ideas at war with other equally unharmonious branches of the government is well known. But Garet Garrett's surprisingly objective account of its complexities, in these days of political and meaningless rhetoric, is much needed. Once there is compulsion to limit production and raise prices "there is a kind of progression to it" until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed fixities of population, among other things, runs...