Word: permited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration sought desperately for a way out. There was talk of a bipartisan approach to the Palestine problem, which would permit the U.S., without much clatter, to go back on its support for partition. But in an election year, when the big Jewish vote in New York was of prime importance to both parties, there was little chance of an official somersault in U.S. policy...
...permit organization of a Jewish militia to defend the new Jewish state...
Paramount was empire-building as fast as time and the FCC would permit. Last week KTLA, the big Paramount-owned station in Los Angeles, had one of the fullest logbooks of any television studio in the U.S. (35 hours a week). Another Paramount production is Chicago's WBKB, and the company has a big (29%) interest in DuMont, one of television's Big Three networks...
More than half of the Class of '46 either have never heard of the election or have protested against it. The course of action for the committee therefore is clear: resign and permit a new election to be held. The committee must take the initiative because they control what little administrative machinery there is. The difficulties incurred in a new balloting are not insurmountable. The men of '46 still remember their classmates, and some few of them vividly. The latter are the men who will win the new election, and the ones who rightfully belong on the permanent class committee...
After long talks, Rene Mayer made one concession in the final plan he announced at week's end: France would permit no open trading in the pound. But it still might be possible for dollar-holders (e.g., U.S. traders who import from Britain) to buy francs on the open market, use them to get sterling credit at the official rate through a French agent-in effect, getting a pound for about $3. The British feared that dollars would be diverted from Britain to France, that Britain's booming export trade would bring in fewer dollars than Cripps...