Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change the Buy American Act to permit foreign companies to bid on U.S. Government contracts without discrimination, provided the bids do not come from countries that discriminate against U.S. companies...
This budget carries out the policy of this Administration to move toward reduced taxes and reduced Government spending as rapidly as our national security and well-being will permit . . . Government must play a -vital role in maintaining economic growth and stability. But I believe that our development, since the early days of the Republic, has been based on the fact that we left a great share of our national income to be used by a provident people with a will to venture. Their actions have stimulated the American genius for creative initiative and thus multiplied our productivity...
...personnel battle. Ever since the Air Force was separated from the Army in 1947, the Army has stoutly held control of some 30,000 Engineer troops, whose chief duty is building and maintaining airfields. This week Army Assistant Secretary John Slezak acknowledged that the Engineers will permit this unit to be absorbed into the Air Force...
...Announced three "concessions" to the three dissident Democrats who walked out of his Senate Investigations Subcommittee last July (TIME, July 20). McCarthy agreed to 1) give up the sole hiring-and-firing powers and let other committee members have a say in staff employment, 2) permit the Democrats to have a minority counsel and clerk, 3) allow the Democrats to block public hearings by their own unanimous vote, unless overruled by the parent Government Operations Committee. The stray lambs, Senators John McClellan, Henry Jackson and Stuart Symington, agreed to rejoin the committee. Said Joe: "I was glad-strike the word...
IRAN is moving closer to settlement of its oil problem. Famed Oilman Torkild ("Cap") Richer (TIME, April 20) has been hired as Iran's official adviser on oil matters and is expected to work out a deal between Iran and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. that will permit a combine of oil companies to market Iran...