Word: permit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
Party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 65, left the U.S. in 1952 and wound up in self-exile in Switzerland. Not long after his exit, he began liquidating all his known U.S. assets. Before surrendering his U.S. re-entry permit in 1953, British-Subject Chaplin, a U.S. resident for 42 years, made $2.7 million, according to a tab kept by U.S. revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly...
...state," from which the patient arouses quickly. ¶Compounds of salicylic acid, para-aminobenzoic acid, tannic acid and their derivatives absorb the sun's skin-burning rays, said the University of Chicago's Dermatologist Stephen Rothman, and they can be used in anti-sunburn lotions. Also, they permit tanning without burning. As some South Pacific veterans will attest, antimalarial drugs such as Atabrine also protect against sunburn when taken by mouth...
...couple of hopeful candidates to enter the race. At a boisterous rally for one of them in Arequipa in December, Odria's police panicked and fired rifles, wounding ten men. To stem the nationwide protest, Odria had to give amnesty to Apristas and change the election law to permit vote-counting in public at the polling places in the presence of opposition observers, instead of secretly, as in the past. A real election became a possibility; other candidates earnestly got into the fight. Odria, who used to say that "it has been shown beyond any doubt that...
While U.S. progress might be faster, the faults are not private industry's. It took 13 months from the time Consolidated Edison started negotiations with AEC to build a privately financed reactor before the AEC came through with the construction permit. Today, most private companies are still waiting on such essential Government actions as: 1) Government reinsurance to protect private companies against catastrophic damages from a reactor accident, 2) amendment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act to permit individual companies to club together to raise the huge sums necessary to build atomic reactors, 3) a Treasury ruling that...