Word: allotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protagonists. This struggle, and the issues involved in it, has been among the most complex in New Deal history. On the one hand is a Federal body set up to allot radio frequencies and license stations in the public interest. Through its licensing power it theoretically holds the whip hand over every one of the country's 890-odd stations. At its head is a tall, unreconstructed Texan, an oldtime anti-trust lawyer and regionalist who was once general counsel...
...will be expected of each volunteer that he allot a portion of his time to defense training in his school so that he will shortly become adept at executing almost any position in Civilian Defense. Thus, in the event of an emergency, whenever additional defense personnel is needed, the versatile Shock Brigades could be called upon for service...
...phrase for this control. Manufacturer Reeves, many another in his spot understood precisely what the phrase meant. For him, it meant that his aluminum supplier (Alcoa) now had to send its order books to Washington once a month. Somebody in OPM would carefully scan those books, allot to each would-be buyer one of a series of preference ratings. If Mr. Reeves by some miracle were rated AA, his aluminum would be shipped posthaste. But top ratings were reserved for such MUST customers as aircraft manufacturers. Other ratings ran all the way down to A10, and Mr. Reeves presumably...
Rent. Since the U. S. can allot a conscript's pay for rent of his dependents, most real-estaters see only the rosy side of the draft picture-many pre-conscription marriages. But if a rent payer is drafted, a War Department bill now in Congress says his dependents cannot be evicted (if his rent is $80 monthly, or less) for at least three months...
...Hercules and Du Pont contracts were only a start. Before this empty breech of U. S. defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that...