Word: okayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars last week by an average 5% to 6%. Automakers, who had asked for 10%, will set new prices on each model according to increases in costs since the start of the Korean war. First out with proposed new prices this week was Chrysler Corp. It asked OPS to okay increases in retail prices on its four-door Plymouth by $108, Dodge $117 and Chrysler...
...long time. While rank & file unionists complained bitterly against rising prices and pegged wages, the General Council stoutly supported the government's 3½-year-old wage restraint policy. Last week it could hold out against the clamor no longer. The General Council formally demanded that the government okay increases. In prospect: a clash between the unions and Clement Attlee & Co., who fear that wage increases, in Britain's economy, will produce runaway inflation. Attlee will be damned if he gives in, damned if he doesn...
Answered the Italian government: Conceivably-if Moscow would okay a reciprocal arrangement. Would it allow Italian artists, regardless of political beliefs, to tour Russia...
...find that he had a secretary, which he had never heard of a reporter having; he supposed that things were different on magazines. He was amazed when she handed him the office weekly payroll to sign, and the fine print of the "Goings On" department to check and okay. He asked her why, and her answer left him thunderstruck. "Because you're the managing editor," she said...
...stint as White House correspondent and is a special favorite of the President's, went to work on his best Administration sources: Why not release the conference records of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island last October? He knew that the President himself would probably have to okay his request. His hunch worked. Leviero was called to an undisclosed rendezvous and given the official Wake Island transcript. The Times had a scoop; the Administration had an audience without seeming to have said a word. Details: ¶ MacArthur, said Leviero's story, told the President at Wake Island...