Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintained a consistent policy of favoring wage increases to meet the higher cost of living for labor and increased subsistence allowances for veterans. We fought to stem inflation by government regulation. Why should we permit our standard of living, our chance for an education, to be reduced for the profit of selfish business interests...
...Permit me to 1) express my gratification for your piece on Mary McLeod Bethune (TIME, July 22) and 2) slip TIME a detonating A-bomb for using the term "Negress" which made my brown face take on a reddish...
...last big chunk of the world's unchartered airways-the trans-Pacific routes to the Orient-was finally portioned out last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Promptly approved by President Truman, the board's decision will permit air travelers for the first time to go around the world on one ticket...
Brave as the gesture was, it was only a gesture. Austria's parliamentarians could not really nationalize Russian-held industries; indeed, the Red Army would not even permit Austrian officials to visit Zistersdorf...
Peter W. R. Mitchell, a smart British banknote salesman, coolly turned the misunderstanding to his own account. He offered to print a colorful series of Guatemalan currency featuring a map of British Honduras. Gasped Banker Manuel Noriego Morales, "Will your Government permit you to print it?" "We are a free country," replied Mitchell smoothly, "and my company is not interested in politics...