Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan has not had a new theater, Cullman noted, since 1927. For the past two years the City Council has studied the possibilities, but has done nothing about revising the building code to permit theaters in office and apartment buildings. Not only would this cut down real-estate overhead, but with present building methods such a theater would be "as safe as Gimbels' basement...
Television hit Denver faster than anyone expected-and there was a wild scramble for sets. Station KFEL-TV, not expected to go on the air until the end of summer, began telecasting last month, just one week after its temporary permit was granted...
...week, at Massachusetts' Watertown Arsenal, the Army displayed weapons made with titanium parts. The Army hopes eventually to make entire vehicles for air drops out of the wonder metal. The infantry has tested a titanium base plate for its 81-mm. mortar, found that the lighter plate will permit it to reduce a mortar crew from four to three men. The Navy, which now carries a spare snorkel in submarines because they corrode so fast, has begun experimenting with non-corrosive titanium breathers...
...Puerto Rican U.S. Army sergeant, watching another flag-raising ceremony at San Juan's old El Morro fortress, echoed the governor's sentiment in other words: "The United States," he said, "would never permit the flag of a lousy colony to fly beside its own. This means Puerto Rico has arrived...
...Pittsburgh, it looked like the break that might end the strike. Big Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, unofficial leader of the industry representatives, sat down again with the Steelworkers' Phil Murray. The industry negotiators reportedly presented a new proposal which would permit a "modified" union shop, i.e., employees need not join if they specifically state within 30 days of hiring that they don't want to. The union sniffed at the plan, but new meetings were scheduled. Both sides were being forced toward agreement by mounting pressure to get steel flowing again...