Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authorized Selective Service to lower its draft age limits to take in only men aged 19 to 29 (the law would permit inductions...
...Sent to Senate-House conference the House's badly mangled version of the McMahon atomic energy bill, which would: 1) establish military representation on the control commission and licensing board; 2) permit the death penalty for security violators; 3) authorize manufacture of atom bombs by the Army & Navy subject to Presidential approval...
...with ceilings off, CPA saw trouble ahead. Most world commodity prices are 25% to 100% higher than those in the U.S. There was little to prevent nations with abundant dollar exchange from buying, at fantastic prices, the goods Americans themselves were still short of. So CPA plans to permit an increase in exports only as U.S. production increases. Under CPA's export formula, manufacturers would be permitted to ship scarce articles, chiefly durable consumer goods, building materials and farm equipment, either in the same proportion as in the first half of 1946, or according to a fixed percentage...
During a meeting yesterday morning with a delegation of prominent Cambridge citizens, City Manager John Atkinson said that his office had made a mistake in withdrawing the permit for the Harvard, Liberal Union's OPA booth in the Square and in discouraging the group from distributing their leaflets. He added that the booth could be reestablished with the consent of the street department and the deposit of a $1,000 bond...
Difficulties started in this case last Tuesday afternoon when Cambridge police, on the order of the City Manager, retracted the permit of the Liberal Union group and forced them to move their booth from the streets. In addition, the authorities had said that the men would be held responsible if their pro-OPA literature became strewn on the sidewalks. The HLU appealed immediately to the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Cambridge...