Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every Canadian Customs officer knows very well, deep down in his heart, that the car driver is a liar. One has only to trail a 'tourist' of this type up the street and into the nearest gas station. He collects his twelve gallons, surrenders his permit, and within 15 minutes he's heading back . . . to Detroit. This is going on not only in Windsor, but at every border-crossing point in Canada, † We're giving our gas to gyppers...
...OWMR Boss Jimmy Byrnes suddenly ordered all horse and dog tracks (horse tracks alone handled a record-breaking $1,126,308,645 in pari-mutuel receipts this year) to shut up tight by January 3 and remain shut "until war conditions permit." He also threw a blunt question at Selective Service: what about all those 4-F professional athletes between the ages of 18 and 26? "They proved to thousands by their great physical feats upon the football or baseball field that they are as physically fit ... as are the 11,000,000 men in uniform...
United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route between Los Angeles and Denver on United's New York to San Francisco main line. Instead, CAB had given the permit to smaller Western Air Lines. As an estimated 50,000 transcontinental passengers a year will fly over the route, many of them on sleeper planes, this might mean that they would be routed out of bed in the middle of the night to change planes. To avert this, CAB suggested that Western...
Arguing the affirmative position in the question: "Resolved, That the Constitution be amended to permit the passage of treaties by a simple majority in both houses," were Ronald G. Newburgh '46 and Arthur D. Sporn '47. Their opponents were Leonard Zariman and Donald Hackel, Judges for debate included Kurt W. Lessen and William F. Weeks of Lowell House...
Even these agreements were hedged, will be made outside the general agreement on the international body. With nations approving all five, the U.S. will now have multilateral agreements. Private U.S. airlines can fly to these nations-or expand present routes-as soon as war conditions permit. But with the others the U.S. will have to negotiate bilateral agreements, which it could have done in the first place. Still, the U.S. had gained what it had long wanted: the right to fly over other nations. And what the U.S. principally wants is to fly as world-widely as possible...