Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderator Ruben Lurie walked to the front of the platform. "We do not permit this type of unseemly interruption here," said Mr. Lurie. "We stand for the principle of free speech and free answer... We have no police here... Never in our history have we had this type of interruption...
Snug as a Duck. With the coming of jet engines, the tide (the Navy hopes) has turned again. A jet seaplane with no propellers to worry about can sit on the water as snug as a duck. It needs no landing gear, and this considerable weight-saving permits the hull to be strengthened for rough-water landings. Independent of prepared airstrips, it can make a very long run before taking to the air. Martin believes that this advantage will permit it to carry bigger loads than land-based airplanes of similar size...
...TRADE EMBARGO by Japan will soon be relaxed, if Japanese businessmen have their way. Japan's Chamber of Commerce has formally petitioned the government to permit freer export to Communist China of such items as freighters, locomotives, steel, machine tools...
Since 1951, U.S. industry has built some $31 billion worth of new plants and equipment with the aid of the fast tax write-off, a device designed to permit defense businesses to cut their tax bills by amortizing expansion costs faster than normally. But still, industrialists do not think that they have expanded enough...
...most part it is probably a healthy thing to be rather well-behaved," added Psychologist Barron. "But there are times when it is a mark of greater health to be unruly . . . The ability to permit oneself to become disorganized is crucial to the development of a very high level of integration...