Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Checker Cab Co. is doing a flourishing business in buggy rides in Boston. The Hub city granted its first hitching-post permit in 300 years last week, planned horse troughs at central gas stations...
Fortnight ago the District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
According to Lieut, Fry, the V-1 program is designed primarily to permit the college student to complete as much of his college education as possible, a minimum of two full calendar years or enough time to complete college and secure a degree. The program is open to all freshmen and sophomores between the ages of 17 to 19 inclusive and to high school graduates who have been accepted for entrance into accredited colleges...
...established a camouflage bureau, and a number of educational institutionsצf which New York's Pratt Institute rates high with the Army—are lending a hand in spreading the gospel. In the latter organizations, many architectural students are learning ways of putting into their architectural designs refinements that permit quick, complete camouflage as necessity arises. For term exercises, students this year made models of hypothetical objectives, disguised them with the latest structural camouflage techniques...
...Navy was trying hard. Its job was extraordinarily tough. The Nazi subsea technique and ships have greatly improved since World War I. U-boat packs have a host of devices to permit their skulking and striking with greater safety. Destroyers are no longer the complete answer. U-boat skippers outfox destroyers by outmaneuvering them with fast turns underwater. And the Navy had not enough destroyers to convoy both in coastal waters and cross-ocean supply routes...