Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Lundeberg, belligerent chief of the A.F.L. Seafarers Union and archenemy of Harry Bridges, asked for a chance to talk to him. The next day Harry Lundeberg startled everyone in sight. The Senator had told him that he was considering an amendment to the Taft-Hartley Act which would permit a closed shop if a majority of workers favored...
Behind this Sunday-best façade (which cost an estimated 700 million rubles-$58 million) was everyday Moscow, a slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...
...Mahatma magic had worked well in Calcutta. Just after 62 people had been killed, 400 injured, in 24 hours, Gandhi had announced that he would not eat until "sanity returned to Calcutta." (Aside he said: "As usual I shall permit myself to add salt and soda bicarbonate to the water I may wish to drink during the fast.") Anxious Calcuttans read about the Mahatma's pulse rate, his blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic) and the acetone and albumen in his urine; they stopped rioting...
...asked the correspondents, had Pfeiffer's party not been allowed to hold a scheduled rally in front of the Parliament building? Boldizar explained that another party had somehow obtained a priority permit for the same place at the same time. What he referred to was an outfit called the Independent Hungarian Democrats, led by one Rev. Istvan Balogh-a tame "opposition" party which the Government had kept around for show-window purposes...
...candidate for the carriage trade, the Media was built for utility and solid comfort rather than flash. Her ample holds can carry 7,000 tons of freight. Her 250 single-class passengers have enough elbowroom in air-conditioned lounges to permit the illusion that they are traveling first class on one of the Queens-for the price of a cabin-class ticket ($260 to $290 each way). Facilities include a library, and separate bars and recreation areas for both passengers and crew...