Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bucket on a String. The general idea of space travel, Porter concedes, is "sound enough." Using the pull of gravity-allowing the spaceship to "fall freely"- would permit small fuel loads. Five thousand miles from earth, a satellite way station could be established, revolving continuously around the earth at 1,400 m.p.h. like a bucket on an invisible string. Moored alongside, the spaceship would require only 50% increase in speed to take it out to an elliptical orbit swinging half a million miles to the moon and back...
Most parking experts feel that cities can no longer permit real-estate men to put up new skyscrapers and huge apartments and let somebody else worry about the traffic and parking problems they bring. It looks as if the time will soon come when all big cities will have to follow Los Angeles' example and force builders to include parking facilities in new construction...
...Please permit me to join with you in saluting the great sculptor, Carl Milles, on his 80th birthday. As for your comments on my work, they are maliciously stupid, uncalled for, and certainly in poor taste...
Russia wanted to be paid well for its 24 days' action against Japan in World War II. Japan must make no military alliances, e.g., with the U.S., directed against any of her former enemies, e.g., the U.S.S.R. Neither party would permit alien navies in the Sea of Japan. Since most of the Japanese navy is at the bottom of the ocean, this would make the waters between Japan and Korea a Russian lake...
...payments as long as a worker receives money from his employer. The union's lobbyists are going to work to get them changed, because the Ford agreement to G.A.W. is off unless the governments in states containing two-thirds of Ford employees agree by June 1, 1957 to permit the supplemental G.A.W. payments...