Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local boards will also be instructed to discontinue the practice of postponing induction of college students to allow them to complete a term or quarter, according to the Wednesday announcement from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service chief...
...University eating at Harvard dining halls are required to sign 21-meal contracts at $10.50 a week, and the food is hardly different enough to create a stampede for select cooking if everyone with weekly contracts were allowed to eat at any of the dining halls. At present, each House or hall has a list of its members, who are checked off as they pass through the chow line. The simplest method would be to allow interhouse slips to be signed for any guest with an eating contract any place in the University, but if Lehman Hall found this created...
While keeping his regular 95-cent dinners at their former price, the manager of the Oxford Grille explained the 30-cent rise in deluxe dinners as being the amount of lose he had previously been taking, when the items were available. He said that his price range would not allow him to buy steaks through "independent," high-priced meat stores...
...questions got completely political, I told him: "I must insist that you arrest me, and then after seeing the American consul, I will perhaps answer such questions, not now. Furthermore, if I am detained long, it might look to some as though the authorities in Poznan were afraid to allow foreign correspondents to watch the referendum...
...part of Britain's belt-tightening, she has frowned on imports of luxury goods. Last week, after six years, Britain coyly smiled again at U.S. exporters. The British Government agreed to allow American manufacturers to export semi-luxury products to the United Kingdom up to 20% of the value of their average annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please...