Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder drug penicillin is scheduled to go on sale in U.S. drugstores this week though actual marketing may be a little late, since the Pure Food and Drug Administration must okay individual products.* Only a few cities and states (e.g. New York City, Pennsylvania, Florida) prohibit the sale of penicillin without a prescription...
...temporary maladjustments in trade. The Fund would set a par value for all currencies in gold or U.S. dollars, require all countries to deal in each other's currencies only at par. A nation may change its currency value as much as 10% without the Fund's okay. But further changes cannot be made over the Fund's objection. If France found herself short of U.S. dollars, she could get them from the common money pool (see chart) instead of restricting her imports from the U.S. France's contributions to the Fund would determine the limit...
...character loaded down with grenades and ammunition belts, demanded my pass. I had none, but fished out my typewritten permit to eat at the British officers' mess in Trieste. The Yugoslav examined it carefully for about 30 seconds, broke into a black-toothed grin, said the equivalent of okay, snapped the neatest salute I have ever seen, and waved...
...official G.I. guide to Germany tells U.S. doughboys how to deal with skeptical Germans. When a German says: "It is all a lie, all democratic propaganda," the G.I.'s officially approved answer is: "Okay, chum, you'll find out soon enough...
...hours; altitude zero. Noticed mouse in radio room. 1150 hours; 10,000 feet: crew taking oxygen. Mouse okay. 1310 hours; 22,000 feet: mouse cold so I'm putting him in my heated muff. He's pretty drowsy. 1325 hours; 25,000 feet: mouse unconscious. Fleas show activity. Target bombed. 1510 hours; 20,000 feet: mouse stirring. 1600 hours; 10,000 feet: mouse running around radio room. 1630 hours; altitude zero: gunner just salvoed mouse out of plane. When last seen mouse and fleas were doing okay...