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Word: permitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reluctantly signed into law Congress' $1,990,000,000 omnibus housing bill. His principal objections: builder-inspired provisions that 1) permit inflationary lower down payments, e.g., $300 instead of $700 on a $10,000 house, on home mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, 2) boost the Administration's original housing budget by 104% to almost $2 billion. The President noted that the added spending was not mandatory, implying that he might take his time putting the new law into full effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On to Newport | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES from California to Hawaii will be laid under Pacific Ocean to supplement radiophone service. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Hawaiian Telephone Co. are spending $37 million on two 2,400-mile cables, which by fall will carry 36 simultaneous conversations, permit direct dialing by operators between Hawaii and 6,500 U.S. communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...state laws are virtually identical with the British, but interpretations differ. Three states (Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico) and the District of Columbia also permit abortions to protect the woman's health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ethics of Abortion | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...House today is too large to permit personal contact between students and with tutors, Hoadley said. He emphasized, however, that he is "fully convinced of the strength of the House idea...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Hoadley Resigns Post As Master of Leverett | 7/11/1957 | See Source »

...aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Mountain-Carver | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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