Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be in their tradition to hit the Japs before the next dawn. Result: only 22 Jap planes had to be shot down; 227 which had been pinned down by night intruders were smashed on the ground in a few hours. Habit-bound themselves, the Japs had failed to allow for the change of pace. "I knew they were stupid," said Trickster Halsey, ". . . but not that stupid...
...operate realistically, and "not in the fairyland of our own oratory." As a realistic start, Perkins suggested that the U.S.: 1) pass a law requiring registration of all cartel arrangements; 2) set up a Board of International Trade to review and pass on the validity of the registrations; 3) allow the board to pass on all international commodity agreements. He concluded that thus, "where we cannot eliminate the cartels, we must gradually perfect new ways to make them into instruments which will serve the public interest...
...week put him in as the new boss of G. & D. An old hand, O'Connor had sold culture in the form of the Harvard Classics, had helped to boost the Book of Knowledge to a place on more than a million U.S. bookshelves. His new bosses will allow him to get out from under the cultural load. Said Cerf bluntly: "We're in it for the money...
...Farlow to Allow Expansion...
...tone of hurt dignity, the Argentines offered to appear before the assembled Hemisphere, allow themselves to be judged. They deplored the present disunity, with their Government recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. They claimed to have fulfilled their obligations to Pan American cooperation...