Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than five years a series of legal hurdles, including the extradition of prosecution witnesses, blocked a judicial hearing for Struik. Faced with the thorny problem of deciding publicly whether or not it would allow an alleged Communist to teach on its Faculty, M.I.T. resolved the issue by suspending Struik until the settlement of his criminal indictment...
...sailed from Haifa on May 24, commanded by brawny Veteran Skipper Kosta Koutales, and manned by a crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that he could no longer act for the ship in any capacity, and the Panaghia was ordered...
...disease" if they go into a silo soon after it has been filled while fermentation is at its height. In the A.M.A. Journal, two Minneapolis doctors report that the disease, which may be fatal, results from damage to the lungs caused by inhaling oxides of nitrogen. The preventive: "Allow no one to enter a silo for any purpose from the time filling begins until seven to ten days after it is finished...
...Louis, Martin was asked by War MobiMzation and Reconversion Chief John Snyder to join the Export-Import Bank as a director. Within a year Martin was appointed Ex-Im chairman (at $15,000), presided over the bank's expansion of capital to $3.5 billion. Determined not to allow the bank to become a handout window, Martin once refused to make a loan to China that had been requested by General George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, insisted that he would never approve a loan unless it were economically sound. In 1948 Martin took...
...Stooge. Nevertheless, in 1951, when he was first appointed FRB chairman by Harry Truman, succeeding Thomas (Scot-tissue) McCabe, who resigned in midterm, Martin had a hard time convincing fellow Democrats at Senate confirmation hearings that he would not allow the FRB to be dominated by his longtime friend John Snyder. Martin's clincher: "I'm not going to be a stooge for Snyder. I have too much respect...