Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government tried and failed to limit naval armaments with the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...
...illegal for two oilmen in one State to agree with two oilmen in another State to limit their joint production of crude petroleum. Their agreement, the U. S. holds, is a conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...Clement Calhoun Young. 60, onetime schoolteacher and realtor (lower right, front cover). While oil gushed from his State's fields at the rate of about 769,000 barrels per day, Gov. Young was prepared to tell his conferees something of his State's efforts to limit crude oil and gas production. California has a State Oil Umpire (F. C. Van Diesne) to curtail production. Potential production is estimated by a general engineering committee of the oil operators and from these estimates Umpire Van Diesne prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip...
...Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee limit required to give the proper external impression of Fascism's internal seriousness...
...bought himself a Wasp-motored Lockheed-Vega ship with seats for five. It can make 180 m. p. h. That is not fast enough to please the owner. He often makes his pilot shoot up at as sharp an angle as possible and nose-dive to the limit of safety. Few men of 65 dare put their hearts to the strain of such quick altitude changes...