Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman Jim McCord, of Lewisburg, learned at first hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good Democrat, looked, nodded...
According to Pepper, the League of Nations was too rigid to allow effective functioning, whereas other confederations have been too weak to form a real connecting link between its members. The real problem, Pepper concluded, is to determine at what point the world situation can be effectively stabilized...
...know they are loafers because no business house would allow them to work in such fantastic outfits. If you are a serviceman with a few dollars in your pocket, you also know that some of them are ready to hoist you into an alley and roll...
...benediction, the happy couple hear a girl recite: "You shall have faith in Germany of the future and the resurrection of your nation. Do not allow yourselves to be deprived of this faith in spite of everything, everything that happens...
...with China, we are going to send flowers in the form of relief . . . give [them] a piece of bread, when what they want is a good hard stone to heave at the enemy." And in peacetime "we give millions for Chinese relief with . . . joy, when we will not even allow a hundred-odd Chinese a year to enter our country on an immigration quota...