Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find excuses for your own inaction in the other manifest and manifold errors of your Government? Do you allow the annoyance of a truculent bureaucracy to deflect you from your duty...
Wheat, of all things, is no longer a surplus commodity in the U.S. Last week Franklin Roosevelt underlined this fact by suspending wheat-import quotas to allow Canadian and Australian wheat to come into the country in quantity...
...that his industry will be the indispensable base of a postwar consumers'-goods boom. And last week Joe Trecker delivered one solid piece of advice to his crepe-hanging colleagues: "The future of the machine-tool industry is no blacker than the individual abilities of its members will allow...
...Finance Ministry forbade movement into the country of all capital not destined for bona fide commercial uses: i.e., no more "hot money." U.S. bankers guessed that this decree would still allow foreigners to put their funds into "conservative" securities, such as Government and industrial bonds, but that investments in stocks would be carefully watched...
Other recommendations by the court: that Pullman 1) service sleeping cars made by other manufacturers, 2) have no more exclusive contracts with railroads, 3) supply through sleeping-car service when a railroad asks it, 4) allow a railroad to operate its own sleeping-car service if it wants to, and 5) let railroads buy used Pullman sleeping cars...