Word: permiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete bulkheads permit workmen to enter and leave this high-pressure bubble by easy stages...
...producer controlled is a lie. . . ." On another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman who wishes to die in the odor of sanctity, permit me to hit the sawdust trail. Just to indicate how faulty is my scheme of reference in general, may I point out that some 15 years ago I resided in a charming hotel at the head of the Spanish Steps in Rome and did not know for two weeks that it was a brothel...
Last week it became apparent that United was still looking for a way out. To its stockholders. President George H. Howard sent a letter proposing to write off as market losses $434,130,478 of its $580,049,445 book assets. Announced purpose: to permit the resumption of dividends on United's preferred stock based on the portfolio as revalued by the state of the market last December 31. But President Howard admitted that if stock-holders agreed, the way would then be cleared for sale of enough of United's holdings to reduce its control...
...licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, and the Commission shall make rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: PROVIDED, that such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section. No obligation is hereby imposed upon any licensee to allow the use of its station by any such candidate...
...doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into a strategic position which may permit them virtually to control the market. The agencies are under no governmental or other supervision . . . are extremely secretive about the technique at which they arrive at their judgment. ..." Mr. Palyi also had a long list of highly technical criticisms of the accuracy and permanence of the ratings. He was presently supported...