Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Trade is not dead!" he shouted, thumping his rubber tipped canes on the floor. "The tariff bill is unjustified by fact and experience. Its definite purpose is to restrict international trade. ... It wil increase the cost of living and lead to wage wars. It will impose heavy new burdens on the poor and it is useless as a bargaining weapon...
...intrastate scale the principle of Interstate Commerce Commission control of airlines to restrict competition (see above) was tested last week in Tucson, Ariz. Errett Lobban Cord's Century Pacific Lines, Ltd. appeared before the Arizona Corporation Commission to ask a certificate of necessity & convenience for carrying passengers between Douglas, Tucson & Phoenix on its route from Los Angeles to El Paso. Opposing the plea was American Airways, Inc. with the claim that it had pioneered the territory, that it was giving adequate service with three round trips daily between Tucson & Phoenix, that it could give more whenever traffic warranted...
Next day before a House committee studying Philippine independence, Senator Hawes declared Secretary Hurley's proposals smacked of "political immorality." According to the Missouri Senator, Secretary Hurley's advice to restrict Filipino immigration without setting a date for the Islands' freedom was "like hitting a man in the face whose hands are tied behind his back...
...problematical whether the six selected prodigies will be happy in their collegiate surroundings. Their physical limitations will restrict their participation in athletics and at college socal functions they will feel hopelessly out of place. Forced to assume an air of deference their more mature classmates, they will in consequence suffer a loss of self-confidence...
...boom which preceded the depression, many countries borrowed abroad on a large and even reckless scale. When prices collapsed, these countries experienced great difficulty in meeting their foreign obligations and were compelled, in order to conserve their gold supply and to limit the depreciation of their currencies, to restrict their imports and to control the export of gold...