Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Permit me to place in nomination as Man of the Year one of the most brilliant military diplomats of our history-General Mark W. Clark...
...Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not return to normal economy until Germany revived considerably, would certainly benefit. On the other hand, more consumer goods to Russians would permit the Kremlin's bosses to allocate a greater part of the Russian industrial effort to increasing the U.S.S.R. war potential. And a large flow of German production to Russia might build up a dangerously close relationship between those countries. Certainly the French would view a revived and unified Germany with...
...bids for the Inches were off because "I do not feel that any of them guarantees to the Government what I consider a fair price . . . $113,700,000." Moreover, said he, the Army-Navy Petroleum Board had previously wanted the pipelines used for oil only. Now it would permit either...
Fantastic Nonsense? To the bidders, this seemed like 1) nonsense and 2) the biggest of all WAA's blunders. Snorted Oilman Smith: "Fantastic." Actually, the Army-Navy board told WAA last month that it had no preference as to oil v. gas. And if WAA was going to permit the lines to be used for gas, then Littlejohn's complaint that bids were too low made little sense. Many of the bidders would gladly have raised their bids considerably if WAA had told them they could pipe gas (gas securities are more readily marketed than oil securities...
...activity classes in the Freshman Physical Training Program have been canceled for Friday afternoon, November 22, starting at 2 o'clock. This will permit Freshmen to support the Football Rally and attend the Harvard-Yale games scheduled for this afternoon...