Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Red Cross workers cycled along the causeway that leads across the marshes outside Dunkirk. They passed safely through the German lines, pedaled through no man's land to the British lines. There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk's 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to be destroyed...
...week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany...
...washed out altogether. As Congress showed no disposition to change its-mind, there was no choice for Hap Arnold. Admitting that there were now enough men to carry on the WASPs' jobs, principally ferrying of Army aircraft, he swung the washout brush, picked the December date "to permit the WASPs to reach their homes by Christmas...
...Overriding priorities for the auto industry which will permit it, and other industries wholly converted to war, to get machine tools ahead of all other civilian industries. (Two days later WPBoss Krug turned down this suggestion...
...Lightning, which Lockheed will continue to build-but on a reduced schedule, to permit a shift to a new, secret Lockheed fighter...