Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allow but a little consciousness...
...these attitudes concerns tariffs. It will probably not be essential for the U.S. to embrace free trade, but economic man in the U.S. must take a firm resolve not to allow unemployment or threat of unemployment to panic him into raising old tariffs or adding new ones. He should not insist on exhausting the last high-cost mine before letting in a ton of foreign ore. Often he may find ways in which tariffs can be lowered for the profit of the very groups they are supposed to protect. But most of all he must be conscious of his consumer...
...Optical lenses now produced by Bausch & Lomb allow observers to look directly into the sun, favorite concealment of hostile bombers...
...quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian soldiers; that Russian bureaucracy is detached enough to allow Voyetekhov a story at its expense. Another good story, more or less at his own expense...
...architect (who sees "as many as time and mutual whereabouts allow"): ". . . The Princeton type ... is neither as crabby nor as derisive as the Yale type nor as 'superior' as the Harvard type...