Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic photographing of the Northern...
...meeting which lasted late into the evening, the Committee searched the files for possible sites of further dancing, with only the Union rooms considered a final possibility. The main Union dining hall was suggested as a desirable site, but University officials refused to permit its use Saturday night...
Just what effect London's action would have on U.S. prices was problematical. As long as the U.S. Government continues buying & selling all crude rubber and controlling the synthetic rubber business, it will make little difference. But the U.S. is expected to permit reopening of the New York market early in 1947. With rubber free on both sides of the Atlantic and with supplies plentiful, prices are likely to drop further. Some guessed that natural rubber would level off around 18? a pound in 1947 (4½? under the Government's present sales price...
...prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished textiles, thus permit mills to extend their inventories. Walter F. George of Georgia wanted all OPA ceilings taken off cotton goods...
Early one morning employes of Aerovias Braniff, S. A. found the way to company planes at Mexico City's Central airport blocked by armed airport guards. Reason: the Ministry of Communications and Public Works had refused Braniff's application for five air routes, had canceled the temporary permit under which the company had been operating in competition with Pan Am's affiliate, Compaña Mexicana de Aviación, S. A. Said the ministry: a "technical study" had shown that present service by C.M.A. in Mexico was entirely adequate, therefore no competition was necessary...