Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United's airmen were after more pay and less work for what they called their "increased productivity." Better aircraft, they argued, permit two pilots and one plane to do what formerly required eight pilots and two planes. Their demand: pay by the mile instead of by the hour, to be calculated so the pilots get the same salary for 70 flying hours monthly that they now get for 85. Added demand: pay (on an hourly basis) for ground working time...
...Lester Pearson, longtime crusader for cease-fire (and for admitting Communist China to the U.N.) suggested that it would be a "great mistake" not to follow up Malik's move. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman saw in Malik's speech a "positive element" that would permit opening negotiations...
...Deposit Insurance Corp. became alarmed at the mushrooming growth of Transamerica Corp., the Giannini holding company which was buying up banks and making them branches of Bank of America (some of them in competition with Eccles' family banks). Accordingly, the three agencies notified Transamerica that they would not permit it to "branch" any more banks. But this united front, said Eccles, ended when John Snyder took over the Treasury. In 1946, Snyder's Comptroller of the Currency let Transamerica spread the empire, and Snyder's friend, Sam Husbands, left RFC to run Transamerica...
...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...
During the early part of the term the main topic of conversation around the Memorial Hall dining room was the situation down at Yale. President Angell had greeted the incoming freshmen with the dictum that either they observed prohibition or face dismissal. "The University will not permit dissipation. No man can come to any great success at Yale who is known to be a dissipated man." The Class of '26 also found that its sophomore compatriots had been forced to sign a pledge swearing they would never take part in a riot. It's good to be at an emancipated...