Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week by representatives of the War Manpower Commission. Now, they thought, they would at last get from a Government agency the specifications they needed to tackle one of the major obstacles to reconversion. After a four-hour meeting they emerged gratefully clutching a prize: the Government was going to allow them to devote up to 1 % of their personnel to planning passenger-car production...
...Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound for imminent danger. That will not allow time to leave the hall, so you must just duck. We are all used to behaving oddly, and we might as well do it in good company...
...Promptly place ceiling prices on items coming back into production, permitting increases over prewar levels where necessary to allow for increased wage and material costs. (Said Bowles: "In the case of companies which continue to have war business or other civilian business we will also consider ... the general financial position of the firm. . . . We must also take into consideration the decrease in unit costs resulting from technological advances and a high level of output. . . . While some commodities are going to come back into production at higher prices than they went out, not all of them will be higher...
...Last but not least, the Bank will keep complete tabs on all loans that every nation has outstanding-something that private bankers often cannot do-and will not allow any nation to borrow more than it can sensibly be expected to repay...
Pots & Pans. Jimmy Byrnes agreed, Nelson won, the first of the peace directives was issued. (Three others will come by Aug. 15. They will release machinery and equipment, allow the development of postwar models and approve civilian production when manpower and materials are available.) Under Nelson order No. 1, manufacturers can start making a fairly wide variety of aluminum products-especially kitchen utensils. Regulations specify that production of pots & pans (and any other items made of aluminum) must be limited to the total previously made with cast iron or other metals...