Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...player named Figliola. To their dismay, the Vasco da Gamas discovered that Figliola had already been signed up by a football club in Genoa, in coffee-hungry Italy. More eager than ever, they cabled Genoa, offered to buy his contract. Prompt was the reply: the Italian Football Federation would permit the Genoese club to release Figliola if the Brazilian club would pay for him with coffee beans...
After four hours' deliberation, the jury acquitted Louis Greenfield. He and his wife talked of adopting another son, apparently unaware that adoption agencies might refuse to permit...
...potentially important oil resources lie in the foothills of the Andes, where, on its 2,500,000 acres, Standard Oil operated six wells on a 55-year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation of Bolivian oil across her territory provided the expropriated fields were not returned to private owners. Paraguay agreed to give Bolivia: 1) a 325-ft. pipeline right-of-way across the Chaco battlefields to the Paraguay River; 2) two free zones for a refinery and a shipping point...
...other U. S. roads facing similar crises, Burt Wheeler has more drastic medicine in mind. Last week his committee reported favorably a bill to create a special railroad reorganization court which would permit recapitalizations of bankrupt roads only upon a basis of "expectable future earnings"-the average for the twelve years prior to the year in which the railroad went bankrupt. That day at the White House Franklin Roosevelt seconded the measure...
...will read as many of his unpublished Cantos as the hour lecture will permit him to, beginning with the fiftieth. He has with him, in the series which is finally expected to include 100, the poems numbered from...