Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion deficit on the actual sales and donations, 2) the exchange of surpluses for foreign currency, most of which was dispensed again in foreign aid. While the President was on the subject, he added his hope that Congress would double the $1.5 billion ceiling on foreign-currency transactions, also permit the U.S. to barter with Iron Curtain countries...
...Blasted out of the House Rules Committee for House consideration the Administration's civil-rights bill to: 1) set up a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department; 2) establish a bipartisan commission to investigate civil-rights violations; 3) permit the Attorney General to take civil action to protect voting rights. The bill, after weeks of delaying tactics by Southern Democrats, was forced out of committee by a group of Republicans and Northern Democrats led by Missouri's Dick Boiling in an 8-3 vote...
...Reconciled, in a Senate-House conference, conflicting measures on stiffer penalties for narcotics pushers. Most important agreements: to permit juries to direct a death sentence for dopesters convicted of selling heroin to minors, raise the top sentence for hardened dope passers (three or more violations) from 20 to 40 years. The bill now goes back to both houses for final approval before being sent to the President...
What Benson did not say was that in Iowa, as in other drought-ridden states where a man makes a decision with an eye on the weather and a hand on his pocketbook, thousands of canny farmers are treasuring options that will permit them to withdraw their land from the soil bank by July 20 if they change their minds. Reason: if enough rain falls before that date, many will go ahead with their crops in anticipation of a higher per-acre income than the soil bank would pay (an average of $44 an acre) if the crops were plowed...
...gonads, and general fluoroscopic examinations may give 2 r or more. The committee suggests that doctors and dentists should go easy with X rays. Patients who read the committee's report (especially those who intend to have more children) will surely think twice before they permit prolonged X-ray treatment for any ailment...