Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
SMALL BUSINESS Administration will be given permanent status by Congress this year, and its lending limit will be raised beyond current $230 million. Eisenhower Administration is stumping for boost to $450 million, but chances are good that Congress will go farther, set $500 million limit...
...cardinal knows that Poland's antiStalinist, National Communist regime represents the utmost limit to which Moscow will let Poland go in the direction of freedom. If Poland's passionately anti-Communist people, hoping for a truly democratic government, were to overthrow or even threaten the Gomulka regime, the result would be as sure as shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski...
...factors caused the shortage of skilled manpower. Because of the low birth rate in the '30s, the proportion of men in their 20s (the training age) has dropped drastically, while the total work force has rapidly increased. Unions are also at fault. Some, still thinking in Depression terms, limit the number of apprentices they will accept for training. More important, the emphasis of industrial unions on raising the pay of the unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled...
...Soviet Union and the United States have been giving chief consideration at the London disarmament talks to proposals which would limit nuclear testing, establish quotas on conventional armament and begin "open-sky" aerial inspection. So far the United States has presented no official plan for establishing a central European buffer zone...