Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fours in the Lakeview chapel, jammed into two crypts and the hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around to seek a favor. It asked the union to call off its pickets on Memorial Day, to permit services in honor of the war dead. It got no prompt answer, waited...
There had to be a long-range plan to permit the slow, expensive development of new types. Consolidated Vultee has built one 400-man troop-carrying C-99. But Consolidated's President Harry Woodhead said that without more millions of dollars and years of preparation for production the C-99 might just as well be a "museum piece." Warned J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fair child Engine & Airplane Corp.: "We will never again have five years to mobilize aircraft production...
What was needed, said Major General Oliver P. Echols (retired), Aircraft Industries Association president, was modernization of antiquated aviation legislation and a five-year production program which would permit planemakers to plan far enough ahead. Minimum security for the U.S., he said, called for production of 5,780 military planes a year. A minimum of 3,000 to 5,000 was needed to assure the industry's survival. An air policy board was necessary to do the overall planning, make recommendations to Congress. The planemakers had stated their case. The next move was up to Congress...
...closed shop, but permit the union shop* if a majority of the workers vote for it in a secret election...
Though he had never wilted before, high-handed Avery Brundage melted before Canada's hot wrath. He was ready to admit after a day or so that "extenuating circumstances" might even permit Barbara Ann to keep her car. But Canada's pin-up girl was taking no chances. Said she: "It would be selfish of me to keep the car and lose a chance to bring honor to Canada...