Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of transient registrations. A great majority of the 900 college-operated automobiles are now left without the comforting privilege of previous years and must face the fantastically high rates of garage owners. If the Cambridge City Council is unwilling to curb the garage lobby to the extent of permitting overnight parking near the college, then the University should attempt to provide other facilities...
...Middle East, the Far East, and, to some extent, Latin America, that postwar air travel has become indispensable to TIME'S news operations. Our Cairo bureau, for instance, figures that it has a million square miles of territory to operate in. Its correspondents can cover Palestine, Lebanon and Syria by automobile; the rest is swiftly accessible only by plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order...
...that point, with his 7,400 readers' tongues hanging out, Publisher Allen wiped the lotus off his chin, and confessed that there was another reason for putting an end to his 14-year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...Paragraph (f) (5) (a) of Rule 16 appearing on fourth revised Page 18 of Redfern's Local and Joint Passenger Rules Tariff No. PR-2, CAB No. 12, may be unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, and whether and to what extent the board shall take further action with respect thereto...