Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automakers, who hold over $4 billions in defense orders, suddenly stopped every non-defense production line, told 300,000 autoworkers to stay home. The lines may reopen on Jan. 5 but, if so, only 180,000 men will be recalled because OPM's latest January passenger-car quotas allow only 25% of the January 1941 rate. And in February there may be no output...
...Constitution. Today the ten amendements which the history books describe as designed " to guard more efficiently the rights of the people and of the states" face another of those periods of stress which have characterized their existence. They have endured through five wars and innumerable crises. We must not allow a war fought in defense of the democracy which they embody, to endanger their very life...
Perhaps Japan's desire for two weeks more of Washington talk was merely to allow herself a fortnight's more preparation in Indo-China. On the other hand, New York Times Tokyo Correspondent Otto Tolischus last week reminded his readers that Japanese statesmen are not the feverish windbags that the West often pictures them, that "they are hard-headed realists who regard politics as 'the art of the possible.' . . . That is why Japan has often retreated in the face of overwhelming force, but has never lost...
...Smith Act the government would be forced to differentiate between actions which could he construed to mean "advocating" the overthrow of the government and those which would actually constitute participating in a seditious uprising. Not only would such a situation create an extremely knotty legal problem, but it would allow a revolutionary movement to gain considerable momentum, presumably enough so that it would have in the opinion of its proponents, at least, a reasonable chance of success, before the government should be allowed to protect itself. I do not believe that a government's protecting itself by means...
...maximums for the weeks Sept. 15-Oct. 11, it starts Dec. 1. Last week, on the eve of the new decree's effectiveness, Canada heard tough talk from Donald Gordon, no longer shy and gangling (he is 6 ft. 3 in., 233 lb.). Warned he: "Rather than allow retail prices to rise, the prices of wholesalers and manufacturers must be reduced. Price control is going to be made effective. . . . You cannot compromise with inflation...