Word: limits
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President was also given authority to set up a war board to handle labor disputes, authority to limit transactions in real estate. The Federal Reserve Board was given power to clamp down on easy-term installment buying...
...Cabinet members said they intended to go slow on use of their new powers. Sawyer planned to start things off with a voluntary allocation program and only two broad orders-one to limit the building-up of inventories, the other a general priority edict directing manufacturers to fill military orders ahead of others. But few thought that such voluntary controls would work as the arms program picked up speed. And then, when every Cabinet member began to slap on his own pet controls, the U.S. might indeed find itself in an "impossible mess...
...Japanese ones. Because of quake-proof construction, many Japanese buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were even stronger than most modern U.S. buildings. U.S. houses have a slight edge over Japan's "paper houses." Houses 7,500 feet away from the burst might survive (compared with a safety limit of 8,500 feet at Nagasaki...
Twelve-Mile Limit. Protestant missionaries, particularly the Seventh Day Adventists, have done what little they could to curb the mass drunks. Catholic authority over the Indians is at a low ebb because there are so few priests on the altiplano...
...Bolivian government has not done much about the problem either, but this summer a labor delegation from the Catavi tin mining region called on President Urriolagoitia and asked that the sale of alcohol be prohibited or limited in their area. As a result, the government forbade the sale of liquor within twelve miles of the Catavi mines. This act might stimulate tin production, might also stimulate activity outside the twelve-mile limit...