Word: allotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaches for delivery early next year. For the first time since 1942, manufacturers were allowed to use stainless steel in passenger cars. But, like troop cars recently authorized, they will not arrive in time to ease this summer's travel crisis. WPB has consistently failed to allot the railroads as much steel as the Office of Defense Transportation estimated they would need; it looked as if that failure was coming home to roost...
...babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...
...were definitely "favorable," but the Battle of Berlin is still in progress and has not reached its final phase. Since the massive raids on the Nazi capital began in November, some 15,000 tons of bombs have been dropped-about one-fourth of what the R.A.F. is prepared to allot for the city's destruction...
...funds, Dr. Carlson made a drastic suggestion: the liquor industry should allot 10% of its present advertising budget, and Government should contribute a big chunk of the liquor revenue to the prevention and treatment of alcoholism...
...Especially now," he said, "when not even lip service needs to be paid in the final examination to the work of the first term, it seems improper to allot credit this way. All these handicaps will be done away with by the simple measure of division, and in addition greater flexibility of program will be available to the undergraduate...