Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Question. Beneath this bumbling Congressional show lay a live and vital issue. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for power to make additional tariff slashes of as much as 50% below the levels of Jan. i, 1945, and Harry Truman had given his support. Republicans charged that this would allow cuts of as much as 75% below the Smoot-Hawley levels of 1930-34 but administration spokesmen pointed out that such cuts could occur in less than 40% of U.S. imports. The Administration's main point: further authority for reductions was basic to the U.S. policy of world collaboration...
British Tommies, roused for once to a burning fury, allow them no respite. It is their just reward. Perhaps it can all be summed up in the few croaking words that came from a pitiful pile of rags and bones that lay at my feet: "Look, Englishman, this is German culture...
...Yalta, Stettinius gave a long lecture on the U.S. idea of joint trusteeship for some postwar colonies and bases. Churchill fidgeted, smoldered, finally exploded with a question to Stalin: "Now tell me, would you allow the Crimea to be placed under a mandate?" Stalin chuckled and said: "Well, I think I'd let the Big Three decide." Churchill cooled off, and Roosevelt got the talk back on the rails...
City editors have a curious tolerance toward flamboyant adjectives which circus press agents think up-adjectives which they would never allow promoters of Brahms recitals or eat-more-cheese weeks to get away with. Last week, with the circus due in town, Manhattan city desks braced themselves for the old bag of superlatives: "astounding . . . prodigious and prodigal plenitude of pageantry." But circus publicists were parading a new and restrained descriptive, born of last season's disastrous Hartford big-top blaze (TIME. July 7). The favorite 1945 adjective: "Flameproofed...
...Blue network decided to overlap its own stay-tuned-in plugs. Wednesday-night sponsors were persuaded to give up the last ten seconds of their shows, allow Blue to plug the following show for 30 seconds instead of the usual 20. If the overlapping plug works out on Wednesdays, Blue may use it seven nights a week...