Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-domed Herbert W. Parisius, a man who believes the food situation is too serious to permit fooling with politics and pressure groups, last week threw up his five-week-old job as Food Boss Claude Wickard's Director of Food Production...
Chileans did not know what aid-if any -they might expect from the U.S. Their President had told them that the country's honor would not permit Chile to ask for military assistance. So they looked forward to a period of suffering if they entered the war. But the Government was prepared. President Ríos last week signed the External Security Bill, which gave him full powers to break relations with the Axis. Almost the equivalent of a state of siege, the law, if invoked, would permit him to clamp down on all Axis nationals...
Before the war all Indian papers were fairly free; there were restrictions, but the British seldom applied them. When war came, Indian editors and British leaders agreed: 1) the press would not hamper Britain's war effort; 2) the Government would permit the papers to go on demanding Indian independence; 3) as a control, the Government retained the right to close any obstreperous publication after giving the offending editor full warning, a second chance. Things worked well until last August, when the suppression of Gandhi's civil-disobedience campaign culminated in disorders...
...part I am more and more convinced that all we can hope for is to provide a general education which will be the basis of later cultural and intellectual growth. The domains of knowledge are today too widely extended to permit of any adequate survey before the average man wishes to leave his studies and take up a full-time job. As an answer to this dilemma there may well be an enormous expansion of so-called adult education in the post-war world. Such expansion should properly include both general and vocational work...
...Ottawa's permission to fly over Canadian soil. Early transatlantic services dickered with Portugal for landing rights at the Azores. In the South Pacific Australia-bound Pan American was blocked 1,300 miles away at New Zealand until after Pearl Harbor. So far the U.S. has failed to permit TACA and British West Indian Airways to make scheduled flights into Miami because their head, New Zealand-born Lowell Yerex, is a British subject...