Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was first lowered two years ago to allow Negroes into general service in the Navy was finally dropped altogether. Last week the Navy an nounced that it would accept Negro women in the WAVES...
...last week credit men who want the regulation eased found a new argument. Wise relaxation of the controls, they said, can allow individuals to hold on to their war bonds and still buy long-wanted goods. Thus, they argue, pressure on the Treasury can gradually be relieved without sacrificing purchasing power...
...matter of principle," boomed the Daily Mall, "no newspaper can allow any outside organization to make a choice [of reporters] for it. This dangerous practice involves not only freedom of the press but liberty of subjects...
...rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China as the U.S. Government's No. 1 "China...
...Great Lakes could be salvaged. No private concern was interested. The War Department, anxious to get the channel cleared, made a deal with Roen. The deal: if he could raise the ship, he could have her; if not, he must chop her off at his own expense to allow 35 feet of clear water over her. Roen took the gamble: by spending $300,000 he might get a hulk that could be rebuilt into a $1,000,000 ship...