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Word: permit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former colonial (bwana), permit me to congratulate you on James Whitmore's photographs of central Africa [May 20]. They shed new light on what is frequently called the dark continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Britain's new policy would permit British manufacturers to sell machine tools, trucks, bulldozers, locomotives and tires to China. The decision, declared the British National Union of Manufacturers, "should open wide and profitable markets to British exports. The restrictions are but out-of-date diplomatic considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Battering Ram | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Each inch of draft carved from connecting channels will permit large lake ships to carry about 100 more tons of cargo. This will bring bigger, faster, more modern ships onto the world's busiest inland waterway, clip the Duluth-Cleveland voyage from seven days to five, cut lake shipping costs by 15? to 18? a ton, save shippers $10 million a year. It will also unlock the lakes for large-scale foreign trade. Some shippingmen predict that by 1965 Great Lakes-overseas traffic will go up tenfold, and the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. optimistically forecasts that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Unlocking the Lakes | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...ROUTES will be granted to more foreign airlines. State Department has tentatively decided to recommend that CAB permit Belgium s Sabena to fly beyond New York to San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...proxy fight. But if Senator Capehart thought he was doing the SEC a favor, he got a rude surprise. Last week, at the Senate Banking subcommittee hearings on the use of foreign banks in U.S. proxy fights, SEChairman Armstrong flatly opposed the measure. Present SEC laws permit stock owners of record, such as banks or brokers, to vote stock in proxy battles, and they require disclosure of beneficial ownership only by those directly involved in the fight or owning more than 10% of the stock. Armstrong said that SEC's small staff would be swamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Rude Surprise | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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