Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is facing a local group's court appeal of its permit to build a 57-foot church with a 90-foot steeple at 145 Brattle St. The permit was obtained in spite of a general zoning law restricting the height of buildings in the area to 35 feet, presumably as an exception in a "hardship" case...
FREE URANIUM MARKET, authorized by AEC, will permit producers to sell ore and concentrate to private U.S. and foreign firms for first time. Uranium men expect no immediate sales boom, but figure on big private market to develop over next few years...
Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, was polite-but his meaning was clear. Navyman Burke's key words: "misgivings," "apprehensions." The law, said he, could be interpreted at some future date "to mean things that the Secretary and the President did not mean." Could it permit the Secretary to eliminate a specific function of one of the services? "People do that, sir," said Burke pointedly. "People eliminate things." Arleigh Burke's statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded...
SPACESHIP ORDERS will come soon from Washington. Decision now is being made on which companies are to get multimillion-dollar contracts for "Dyna-Soar" (from dynamic soaring), i.e., vehicle that will be boosted up like a rocket but will have wings and controls to permit pilot to orbit freely around globe, then glide back to earth...
POTENT ANTISTRIKE weapon has come from ICC. It ordered truckers and railroads to give pickup and delivery service to customers that are hit by strikes, picketing or labor fights. Rule knocks out labor contracts that permit Teamsters to honor picket lines...