Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gordon, whose Chi cago district is heavily Polish, President Eisenhower revealed last week that the U.S. not only is arranging to sell Communist Poland farm surplus commodities (TIME, Jan. 14) but also will allow the Poles to purchase on credit. Wrote Ike to Gordon: the transactions "would ease economic difficulties of the Polish people," also "clearly reveal that the door remains open to a closer relationship" with the U.S. and other free nations...
...other misfortunes: Vested interests suffered when the Fly Club was threatened by the onslaught of commuters without an adequate center, and Councilman Velucci threatened to build an expressway through the Yard. The Faculty obstinately refused to allow students to type exams, and someone stole Mrs. Mrs. Brennans 30-pound...
...Allow specified goods-mostly manufactured items-to move between member nations free of tariff...
...What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck is unsightly and flabby . . . hips big in contrast to skinny toothpick legs . . . She has to take Epsom salts for her bowels . . . barbiturates to counteract the effect of coffee and to allow her to sleep." Dr. Lee, a onetime stammerer, states: "People have asked me who psychoanalyzed me out of stammering, and [they] find it hard to accept my answer. I was not psychoanalyzed. I just...
...Bird Charmer. Though the suicide was hushed up that afternoon to allow the New York Stock Exchange to close, the market opened the following Monday to a flood of "sell" orders on Kreuger stocks and bonds, to which hardheaded U.S. financiers and softheaded speculators alike had subscribed some $250 million. Prices plummeted; one issue of Kreuger stock opened at 5, off 37½ points from the previous close. In little over a month after his death, it was clear that Kreuger had been the world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years...