Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee hoped that ultimately private industry would take over the plants kept in production. In fact, this should be a "major objective" of rubber policy. But the committee carefully avoided talk of subsidies or protective tariffs, hoped that improvements in production would permit synthetics to compete in a free market. As yet, private industry has shown no eagerness to ride on Jumbo. It fears that improvements may not come fast enough, that the price of natural rubber, now 22½? a lb., will again drop below synthetic, now 18½?. If private industry...
...delirium of greed," we wonder what possibilities of contrast are left him if he should describe Europe's real "jumbled waste" cities. . . . For us, this "largest force lately to appear on the horizon of American letters" is a man to amuse a very prosperous culture which can still permit itself the undermining, disheartening, demoralizing effect of his kind of literature...
...tyrannies [Russia]." He played on Spanish national pride and long-deferred social hope: "The outside [world] is not important. We are looking to the inside. . . . We are going to make . . . a better social justice, which is the basis of prosperity of the people. . . . Do you think that God would permit barbarism and lack of gallantry in the country of Don Quixote...
...firm: if there was to be jam tomorrow, there could be no jam today. There would not even be jam tomorrow unless they all, women and old men included, worked more today. The U.S. loan (if Congress approved it) would help to revive British trade, but it would not permit Britain "to relax, only to work all the harder...
About the same time, in Essex County, N.J., Frank Van Dyk, ex-hospital fund raiser, solved Blue Cross's worst handicap. He persuaded all the county's hospitals to join in one group, permit subscribers to go to any hospital they chose. This is now standard Blue Cross practice...