Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, decided to allow Sergei Koussevitzky, conductor of the non-union Boston Symphony, to keep a date in New York. Boss Petrillo, relenting after a personal plea from "a great humanitarian," Marshall Field III, agreed to let Koussevitzky conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony-just this once...
...Navy has continued recruiting for its V-7 officers' training program, but has just issued notice that men enlisting in the course may not choose whether they will seek commissions as Deck or Engineering Officers, but must allow the Navy to make this decision after appraising the abilities of each individual. Furthermore, college men enrolled in V-7 and delaying active duty until graduation, who wish to adopt the accelerated college program, are advised to do so next summer rather than taking an advance V-7 course, and they will be inducted into the regular course as soon as they...
...mill Sci adjustment is subject to the approval of the War Department. As a result, men in both departments may finish their courses in three years, and still have the equivalent of four years of study. The Naval Science Department has alternative programs which allow students to complete their training in three-and-one-half years or in the regular four year period...
...stations, 14 were in cities "adequately served by less than four full-time stations," i.e., less than enough to allow CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue and Mutual one outlet apiece. All 14 were NBC affiliates having the usual five-year contracts with NBC-contracts giving NBC an option on their best hours on 28 days' notice. FCC's new regulations modified this, requiring 56 days' notice. But FCC's regulations were not yet in force...
Industrial Responsibility. "The nation will no longer allow the major decisions in industry and finance, which determine the country's wage standards, work standards, and unemployment totals, to be taken as now by a handful of people who are not bound to answer for the social consequence of their decisions." If private enterprise is "willing and able" to discharge these obligations, say the churchmen, "well and good." If it is not, the nation will step...