Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Leighton, the opening of Quincy House will allow the other seven residential Houses to deconvert up to 230 suites. "The Administration will look carefully at the number of applications for these more expensive suites, and use this as a gage to determine how far deconversion should proceed...
CULTURAL RELATIONS: "There is no substitute for increased sensitivity on one side and the avoidance of shrillness on the other." Congress should consider a Fulbright-type scheme to allow U.S. scholars to study and lecture in Canada...
...Highly mechanized plants have forced workers to develop new skills; the new class of skilled labor has fractured the monolithic front that the mass-production unions once presented to management. To hold the allegiance of skilled workers, unions are revising their organization. The U.A.W. recently amended its constitution to allow skilled workers to veto contract clauses that affect them, took great pains in last summer's contract negotiations to win an extra 8? an hour for them. All of these trends, says the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Economic Review, "are producing a virtual revolution in industrial life. These changes...
...members of the Common Market. This was as far as the protectionist-minded French intended to go. They would not grant to outsiders the Common Market provision to raise import quotas in each category to at least 3% of a nation's home production (which would allow a lot more German Volkswagens than British Hillman Minxes into France). To the British charge of discrimination, the French replied that naturally there should be special club privileges for those who paid their dues...
...holiday runs of the New Haven Railroad even in the event of a strike or worse weather conditions. A representative admitted "the situation is terrible" and could become a "holocaust" if traffic is diverted from the airlines to the N.Y.N.H. & H. R.R. He claimed costs and equipment do not allow an increase in cars even if desperately needed...