Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janeiro, representatives of the international airlines of 40 countries agreed to ask their governments' permission to 1) raise fares on the North Atlantic route by $25 to $350 (½? a mile) next year; 2) sell special round-trip excursion tickets at 25% above the one-way price; 3) allow 10% discounts on round trips, 90% discounts for infants who are under two years...
...keep the date, Moravec prevailed upon his surgeon, Dr. Thomas B. Quigley, to allow him to leave his Stillman Infirmary cot, using an ambulance for the trip...
...make division between us. You should completely ignore their taunts and jeers-for instance, I noticed in the newspaper bitter words from a Mr. Priestley, who gained some acceptance in the war from the fact that we used him for broadcasting purposes. He has no influence. No American should allow himself to be irritated or offended by such diatribe. They do not represent in the slightest degree the feelings of the British nation, or, I may say, of His Majesty's Government...
...Through the Marshall Plan, Western Europe will never become self-sufficient. American capitalists will not allow those countries to compete with them on the international market and thus the plan will simply become a permanent dole," Sweezy asserted...
...General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic considerations might allow." What the industry wanted was a program of at least five years of military production at a big enough rate (probably 3,000 to 6,000 annually) to keep it alive and vigorous...