Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building up the curative aspects of the charter, the United Nations in time might be able to alter a world environment which, unaltered, would not permit any world organization to function effectively. Said one of the U.S. delegation's hopeful consultants...
...text of the decision reads in part: 'It is significant that when Congress has desired to permit cooperatives to interfere with the competitive system of business it has done so expressly by legislation.' The Supreme Court has pointed out our next step-we must go to Congress...
...Superfortress teams had now hit most of Japan's large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from...
...made a secret deal with the anti-conscriptionist "independents" to support 30 of their candidates in Quebec. Behind this incongruous arrangement was the obvious hope that after the election the combined strength of the Progressive Conservatives and the "independents" would be great enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives and Quebec Nationalists, though differing on basic policies, had united to defeat Canada's late, great Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier...
...Bekinses). Still operating on the happy family plan, the companies run a trainlike transcontinental van line, have 37 U.S. offices, took in $5,500,000 last year, moved more than 30,000 tons of home furnishings (the firms cannot handle general freight under their Interstate Commerce Commission permit...