Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American cars," said he drily, "are already selling in France for twice the price asked for them in the United States. The existing rates provide ample protection. French automobile interests are seeking to bar American cars in order to permit them to allow their business to vegetate without the benefit of the improvements and progress which were required of them when trying to sell against reasonable competition from foreign manufacturers...
...elected captain of next year's sextet yesterday afternoon when the stickmen gathered together for the last time this season. The election was originally to have been held last week when the team had its picture taken at Notman's but was postponed until yesterday in order to allow all players to participate...
...Mayor of Calcutta, Mr. J. M. Sengupta was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment last week, while he sat mute and motionless in court, refusing to make any defense. When the Mahatma came to the village of Ankhi on his walk he rebuked the inhabitants for their passive refusal to allow the local British police to buy food. "It is against religious principles to starve anyone," said the saint. "I would suck snake's poison even from General Dyer, should he be bitten...
...Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight years the crop is worth $600 per acre. Over a like period, $240 per acre would...
Entirely due to President Paul von Hindenburg was the impressive majority. Realizing that the bill had to pass, Centrist opponents of the Young Plan schemed to save their faces by abstaining from the vote to allow the bill to squeak through and become law by the President's signature. The grizzled, grim President, who apparently knows and sees all in German politics, neatly bud-nipped this plan. Summoning the Centrist leader, Dr. Heinrich Briming, he pounded his desk with his gnarled fist, announced that unless the Young Plan was ratified by a majority large enough to show unmistakably that...