Word: permited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...
...Litvinoff-Roosevelt Agreement, under which the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began diplomatic relations in 1933, the Russians promised to permit facilities for religious worship by members of the U.S. diplomatic mission. Last month the U.S. State Department called it the only stipulation among a half dozen that the Kremlin had fulfilled...
...Edinburgh, delegates to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the established church of Scotland, wound up their annual meeting. They discussed liberalizing their divorce canon (to permit remarriage of repentant adulterers at the minister's discretion), but decided to think about it again next year...
...ones (dealers usually sell the trade-ins at far more than they allow the customers). Dealers' discounts are fat enough, said Coyle, without the extra trade-in profit. Said he: "If [the dealer] is assured that the new car will not pass into the black market, he should permit the customer to sell his own used car if he wishes...