Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please permit me to commend your current issue of TIME, especially the space and fairness with which you dealt with the life, accomplishments and death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For more than eight years it has been my privilege and honor to be Rector of "The President's Church" in Washington (St. Thomas'), where I have come to know him and to appreciate his sterling qualities as a man with a genius for friendship, a charm of personality, ideals of true democracy, world vision, an underlying religious spirit and a surprising knowledge of the Bible. . . . HOWARD S. WILKINSON...
...take up the cudgels again in an old, familiar fight: for reciprocal trade agreements. But this time, with the nations gathered at San Francisco, the old bickerings had a new implication. The committee was considering the bill to renew the eleven-year-old Reciprocal Trade Agreements Law and to permit further tariff reductions...
These men, cheering as hard as their feeble strength would permit, tore them selves getting through the barbed wire to touch us, to talk to us. Some of them were nearly mad with joy. Here were the men of all nations whom Hitler's agents had picked out as prime opponents of Naziism; here were the very earliest Hitler haters. Here were German social democrats, Spanish survivors of the Spanish Civil War, a correspondent for the Paris Soir, who cried so hard I could not get his name...
...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...
...basic proposition was that the U.S. can keep its present lead in aviation only by regulated competition, i.e., by allocating international routes to U.S. companies, the way the Civil Aeronautics Board now hands out domestic routes. He waved away the argument that low wages in other countries will permit foreign lines to put competing U.S. companies out of business. Said Airliner Damon: in the last full prewar year, the operating costs of U.S. airlines were far under those of any foreign line. The reason: greater efficiency of operation...