Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army will permit men between 18 1/2 and 25 years of age to escape the draft if they volunteer for a six month period of active training duty, the Defense Department announced recently. National Guardsmen will also be required to take six months of active training...
...last of the 21,500 Hungarian refugees authorized to enter the U.S. in 1956 were arriving last week, the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported that 1956 immigration topped 350,000-the highest total of any year since 1924. At the White House, President Eisenhower considered legislation to permit the 1957 total to soar even higher. He also ordered Attorney General Herbert Brownell to continue to admit unspecified numbers of Hungarian refugees under the "parole" provision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration law "until such time as the Congress acts...
...less than two-millionths of a second. But when they are created by cosmic rays hitting atomic nuclei high in the atmosphere, they seem to have comparative immortality. Many of them reach the earth's surface more than ten miles below, although their short "rest lives" would permit them, even moving at the speed of light itself, to travel about one-third of a mile. The reason they travel so far is that their speed, given them by the cosmic rays, makes their time slow down. They live, by earth time, 15 to 20 times longer than if they...
...DRIVE-IT" SYSTEM is being started by Greyhound Corp. in New York, Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland. By year's end it plans fleet of 4,000 to 5,000 cars in 50-city net, will permit driver to return car without extra charge to any city with Greyhound's rental service...
Denounced from the pulpit by New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as "revolting" and "morally repellent."* Baby Doll ran into its biggest snarl in Providence. The police snipped half a dozen scenes before they would permit it to be shown. Warner Bros., the film's distributor, threatened to sue the exhibitor if he showed the cut version, but he hung out his "For Adults Only" shingle and began running it anyway. Roman Catholic Bishop Russell J. McVinney of Providence urged his flock to abide by the Legion of Decency's ban against the picture even...