Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allow me a derisive guffaw at the perversity of the esthetic editors of TIME, FORTUNE and the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. After years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know...
...having progressed to Ibsen, NBC formed a Radio Guild, boldly undertook to produce one play a week, 52 weeks in the year. For several years one man, Vernon Radcliff, adapted every play, directed every performance. NBC, prospering in the great Depression, gave him enough money to allow productions of Galsworthy, Barrie, George S. Kaufman...
...allow construction of the 975 locomotives they planned for in January. But this is below the 1,200 new and larger locomotives that ODT feels the railroads need this year...
Another problem peculiar to the Sophomore in V-1 will be cleared up by the postponement. While he would have been rushed into the examination without a chance to brush up on his mathematics, or take courses in parts of it where he was deficient, the new system will allow him almost a full year in which to prepare himself for the technical side of the exam...
...same time, Perkins explained that the Navy will no longer allow this year's Sophomores who fail the physical examinations for transfer into V-7 or V-5 to withdraw from V-1. From now on, everyone enlisted in V-1 must either pass the comprehensive exams which will make him officer material, or serve in the Navy as a noncom...