Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners in Germany the Moscow radio beamed speeches by German clergymen, Catholic and Protestant. Many of the speakers were said to be captured German army chaplains. They praised Moscow's National Committee for a Free Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), told how the Russians allow them to practice their religion in the prison camps, urged listeners in Germany to pray for peace, work against the Nazis...
Despite some black-market shenanigans, most of the price increases have been perfectly legal under OPA's regulations, because normal profit margins are allow able, and higher fabric and labor costs pyramid from textile weaver to manufacturer to retailer...
...Anglo-U.S. "plot" overthrew Mussolini's Fascist regime; Italy's action was "the shameless betrayal of an ally whose deeds of valor in Italy's defense were recognized by the enemy themselves"; Badoglio acted "not only to maneuver Italy out of the war but to allow the Italian forces . . . to administer a stab in the back to the German troops on Italian soil...
...taxes, in effect, 2) would fail to distinguish between the profit that industry deserves on its own investment and what it should get on the investment of public funds (as in the case of Government-built factories). All Government witnesses, including the Treasury, came out flat-footed against allowing postwar reserves as a cost item in war contracts. Their reasons: 1) existing tax laws already allow for some postwar reconversion cost; 2) no one can estimate the costs of conversion to peace before the conversion takes place...
...chronic liar," said that an Administration "Gestapo" had been tapping his wires. Government officials who had telephoned him, he declared, had since been confronted by their superiors with transcriptions of the conversations. The New York tabloid PM reported that Pearson's syndicator, United Features, had refused to allow him to reply to the President. PM published what it reported was a banned column, in which Pearson elaborated on the statements that had provoked the Presidential wrath...