Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. ¶ Passed, in the House, a bill changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day-in recognition of the fact that the U.S. has gone through two major wars since Nov. 11, 1918. ¶ Voted, in the House, to permit former Lieut. Zdzislaw Jazwinski, Polish flyer who escaped to Denmark in a Soviet-built MIG, to live in the U.S. ¶Added, in the Senate Finance Committee, some $50 million in excise tax cuts to the $912 million reduction already called for in a House-passed bill. Included was a move...
Many a state now has soil-conservation laws that permit authorities to "list" or "chisel" the uncared-for land and tax its owner for the expense. All over the plains last week the fight against soil erosion was going on. But such work-and particularly the job of getting grass back on thin, bad soil-would take time. Only soaking rains could guarantee an end to the blowing plumes of dust...
...British Foreign Office. When he applied at the British consulate in Peking for a renewal of his passport so that he could cover the Geneva Far Eastern Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington, a Communist Party member since 1934, thus faces the choice of staying...
Hockey's controversial rule concerning a player touching the puck with his hands has been changed to permit the player to knock the puck to the ice, but he cannot pass it to a teammate...
Because of the great inducement to take advantage of a Junior year away, some precautions are necessary to permit the departure of only capable, mature students. An applicant should have a Group Three or better standing for his first tow years, and meet the proposal's requirement of a D language course. Although the program includes an orientation period, no student should leave without the full confidence of his department. With these safeguards the Faculty can pass the Junior year abroad plan and insure a profitable addition to the curricula...