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Word: permit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Groundbreaking for Quincy House is scheduled for early March, if weather conditions permit. A tentative completion date of July 1, 1959 has been set and the House will be ready for occupancy by the fall of that year...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Eighth House Will Honor President Quincy; Groundbreaking Planned for Early March | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...president of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, "was to reach infinite space." But if Wernher von Braun had any notions about the German army's spending millions to achieve his dream of space exploration, they were quickly dispelled. Germany wanted weapons, period. The Budget Bureau would not even permit Kummersdorf to buy office equipment, and Von Braun learned early in the game the techniques of flimflamming the bureaucrats, e.g., it was a rare budget official who realized that Kummersdorf's request for funds to buy an "appliance for milling wooden dowels up to 10 millimeters in diameter" meant that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Reach for the Stars | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Churchill Debate | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio. In this film the hero drinks vodka very often. It is not seldom in plays on the stage the hero is shown with a large bottle of vodka. We must not permit drunkenness to be made a cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Agricultural Exhibition in 1954, noted how thousands of Russians flocked in to view dull farm machinery and farm produce. When he approached the U.S. Government with the idea for a U.S. trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass, himself talked long and hard with Russian trade officials. He got a written agreement to stage the fair last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: U.S. Fair in Moscow | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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