Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the smoke cleared, the opposition had apparently gained a victory of questionable importance: the Administration had agreed to allow "clearly understaffed" Departments to recommend men for promotion to "frozen" associate professorships. This meant that if the President kept good faith, and the Departments pushed their claims, some of the ten assistant professors could be promoted to permanency even though they might never rise higher than the level of associate professor. Now the grapevine has it that two of the forgotten ten, one in. English and one in Government, have been recommended for promotion to permanent tenure. And confirmation...
...rent and dam ages, which the Government paid under protest. This time the Government wanted nothing like that, and on Sept. 1 it simply took control of all railway transportation in the British Isles. Since then stockholders have waited anxiously to find out how much profit the Government would allow them...
January production, not much below December's, was still too good to allow much dent in high current inventories. Federal Reserve Board production index, 128 in December, will probably be 120 for January, but this includes a seasonal adjustment which penalizes January for not being better than December. Actually, many production lines were kept close to capacity all month by backlog orders left over from 1939. Only now are unfilled orders being cleaned up, a real decline in output getting under...
...other hand," said Chung Kiang Chu. "We can't allow ourselves to be sad, because even though I feel very sad, I might even say mighty sad, at the present time, and what is time, after all?" asked Chung Kiang Blooie...
...shipments involved one transaction -Morgan paid for the whole 5,000 carbines, while the claim on the Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money for the first shipment" (House Reports...