Word: limit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decide (with no help from cagey Mr. Roosevelt) whether to up the Federal debt limit from its present $45,000,000,000, which is a mere $3,000,000,000 above the current Federal deficit...
There is a limit to the amount of ballyhoo a motion picture can stand--a limit beyond which the returns are not only diminishing but negative in effect. Those who go to see "Gone With The Wind" expecting "the greatest motion picture ever produced," the "film of the century," and the "apotheosis of the photographic art" are going to be--and have been--disillusioned. But those who approach Loew's with their mental standards set at the usual level will have a rare treat...
...unarmed, the Columbus' crew, taken to Ellis Island, could look forward to early freedom, as "distressed" mariners. Less clear was the status of the Nazi freighter Arauca (see p. 8), which brought the war close home to Florida pleasure seekers last week by running inside the three-mile limit off Fort Lauderdale (20 miles north of Miami), just in time to escape capture by H.M.S. Orion (cruiser...