Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternatives confronting the conferees were: 1) to restrict travel by cutting down schedules or 2) to increase travel by cutting down rates. They took the latter course, announced a cut beginning Aug. 17 of from 10% to 30% in first-class rates, of 13% in third-class rates. In shipping circles it was rumored that the cut had been practically forced by the British, who had threatened a rate war against the French and German lines. Oldsters recalled that in 1904 British and German steamship companies competed so bitterly for immigrant trade that one could travel from Great Britain...
...Tennyson's about "In the Spring" and all the awful things that happen then, but did not the same old rhymster say that there was no joy but calm. He did. And the two are not compatible. The Vagabond has always been a batchelor for woman would restrict the carefree, wandering life such as his. He has patiently borne with the feministic foibles of his followings for he understands that debutantes are occasionally attractive. But he has always thought that they restricted themselves to casual theatres, the dansants, or football games. Marriage was beyond the bounds of even his palsied...
...which could be stirred up to silence opposition would provide employment for many. One can foresee senatorial partisans mobilising forces of radio and talkie property men and armies of extras to create the sound and fury for drowning out opposition. New rules of parliamentary procedure could be formulated to restrict and regulate the use of mechanical aids. Machines operated by steam or hot air might be ruled out but such limitation would exclude some of the more prominent actors in the world of politics...
...more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than 85% of the nation's granulated sugar. The petition charged that the Institute had induced beet sugar refiners to restrict competitive activities, had maintained the price of cane sugar 20? per hundredweight higher than refined beet sugar...
...Bernard Drachman of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America insisted that the issue was essentially a religious and spiritual one. "We are not at all interested in its commercial aspects," said he. Others, however, pointed out that, because the Jewish faith prohibits work on Saturday, and the State laws restrict work on Sunday, Jews are condemned to a five-day business week. All agreed that a partnership between a Jew and a Gentile should not be used as a device for working seven days a week. So an amendment was suggested specifically providing that any business conducted on Sunday must...