Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ernest R. Breech, who is Board Chairman of North American Aviation, Inc., we will need a standing airforce of about 24,000 military planes after the next armistice is signed,-and that means even if the U. S. takes an important role in policing the world. If you allow for a replacement demand of 6,000 planes a year, this will still only give employment to about 100,000 men- or less than 20 per cent of the number that will be working in aircraft production by 1944. That leaves a fat remainder of 400,000 or more workers...
This week a court of inquiry under Rear Admiral Lamar R. Leahy, retired, sat down to try to fix the blame. Did the Lafayette's elaborate fire-detector system operate? What had happened to her fire-fighting equipment? Was a fire patrol on watch? Why allow men to operate acetylene torches so close to inflammable kapok...
Prime Minister Nahas Pasha, leader of the nationalist Wafd Party, last week backed up pledges made to the Egyptian people and officially announced, in a letter to British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson, that as a sovereign nation Egypt would allow no "British interference in . . . internal affairs." He worked on plans for redistribution of available foodstocks, urged increased agricultural production with an eye toward self-sufficiency, prepared to crack down on hoarders and profiteers, as well as "intrigue and attempts to create disturbances...
There but three alternatives for the post-war Italian government, Professor Salvemini advised. "The first is the continued domination of the royalty. This is disastrous since the liberal opposition, rather than accept this rule, would allow a free hand to a Communist upheaval, the second possibility. The third, and most acceptable, is the creation of a democratic republic...
...majority opinion, Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, president of the Advocate, stressed that "the best possible education" is one that produces a broad, general outlook, and that such and education is necessary for democracy. This kind of training, he maintained, requires more time than a three-year program would allow...