Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those left over are automatically mobilized into the civilian army. All workers are registered and their skills classified. Lowest classifications: bartenders, florists, taxi men, candy salesmen, etc. Many cannot quit a job without permission. No one can even advertise for a job, or for a worker, without a permit. N.S.S. Director Arthur MacNamara (also Deputy Minister of Labor) is empowered to shift any worker to a job where he is needed more. Transferred workers must accept the wage rates paid by the employer to whom they are assigned, no matter how much more they may have been getting at their...
...politics, his speech raised a basic question facing the western Allies: did they mean to use force, if necessary, to permit the people of liberated nations freely to choose their future governments -be they right or left-by democratic procedure, under...
...upon prolonging the war at any cost. Their dispositions on Luzon fitted such an intention: of an estimated nine divisions on the island, three were reported in the extreme south, three in the extreme north, and the balance in central reserve near Manila. This was a disposition designed to permit maximum resistance wherever General MacArthur might land-and obviously with no plan of evacuation in mind...
Lieut. Kirsch, a 29-year-old Navy flight surgeon, pursued his researches in the course of 21 combat flights over Jap-held islands in the Pacific. All were unusually dangerous missions on which, besides dropping bombs, the planes were required to hold a straight, level course to permit mapping and picture-taking...
Their plan (adopted at a conference of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors in Chicago): voluntary rationing. Retailers will issue as many numbered ration cards to their customers as their stocks permit, and punch once for every pack sold. Dealers will honor only cards signed by themselves. To get cards, customers will have to sign declarations swearing they will hold no other dealer's card...