Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teamsters Welfare Fund to a real-estate company developing 1,270 acres in Flint. Fitzgerald, according to earlier testimony, pocketed a $15,750 "finder's fee" for arranging the loan. A title and guarantee officer supervising the funds in escrow said Fitzgerald rearranged the escrow agreement to allow some of the money to be used for curious purposes, e.g., the purchase of a bull and nine cows to give the Flint development a rural atmosphere...
...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
Barbed-Wire Landing. In our landing craft we felt big as a whale. Several times tracers sought us out but did not find us. The battlewise Chinese coxswain kept his head, stayed out of the line of fire, refused to allow his gunners to fire their two machine guns and give our position away. We were not touched, nor were the two other landing craft. For once the battle broke, it became a fire fight between the attacking Communists and our escorts. The Nationalists later claimed all but one of the attacking PTs and gunboats sunk...
...being negotiated by Pan American and National airlines. Pan Am plans to lease at least one of its Boeing 707s to National every winter, when National's Miami business picks up. National would lease DC-8s to Pan Am in summer for busy North Atlantic route. Deal would allow National to make three jet round trips daily to Miami during coming Florida season, race ahead of competing Eastern and Northeast with first pure jets on route...
...East River last week constituted a memorable display of the art. In the great hall where the General Assembly meets, in corridors, in the delegates' cocktail lounge and at lunch tables, some of the world's leading statesmen cautiously felt their way toward a formula that would allow everybody to emerge from the Mideast crisis with dignity intact...