Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there had been any the week before, there was no doubt last week that the Administration was not to allow any foreign consideration to interfere with domestic recovery. Economic nationalism was now Washington's watchword. But the President put in many an hour discussing the world situation with Bernard Mannes Baruch, Norman Hezekiah Davis, Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black, and many another who marched in & out of the White House. By cable and telephone the President kept in constant touch with Secretary of State Hull at the World Economic Conference in London...
...what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman to announce his business-once, on each front of his premises toward a road and to display advertisements ... on a single space on the building of not more than 24 sq. ft. "On the question of litter, there is no doubt that the habits of the public have greatly improved...
...Problem of the rubber industry is the elasticity of crude rubber prices (from $3 a Ib. in 1910 to 2? lb. in 1933), controlled by conditions abroad. General Johnson & aides will have to allow for a wide basic price range in manufactured rubber products...
...regulatory code in the copper business will have to allow for: 1) a wide range of production costs between U. S. refineries; 2) new sources of cheap foreign copper, against which the Administration may not want to erect a higher tariff wall...
...novels. Pre-eminent in size (1,224 pp.; 2¾ Ib.) but not in size alone, this big-boned romance may well strike terror into readers effetely accustomed to smaller, more playable fish, or to the monotonous diversity of a blank waste of waters. But those readers who allow themselves to be swallowed whole will emerge, some time later, grateful for the experience...