Word: allotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battler v. the Kid. Having no power outside the authority to allot certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched...
Mayor H. Roe Bartle and the city council were angry because Kansas City had contributed $105,000 to the March of Dimes, got back $34,000 for patient care -and now the National Foundation said it could not allot more because all its funds were committed. Snapped Mayor Bartle to a foundation spokesman: "I think you have sold the people a bill of goods." Councilman Charles C. Shafer Jr. tossed in the time-worn allegation about high headquarters overhead: "There's just too much discount by the Foundation before the money gets to the people...
...refining. The government took the step with some misgivings: a 1958 poll seemed to indicate that 40% of all Germans had little knowledge of stock, and presumably little interest. The doubts were groundless. The shares were snapped up so fast that the Bonn government decided last week to allot an additional 530,000 shares to subscribers...
...Treasury last week was "gratified" at the public rush to buy the $3.5 billion worth of short-term securities (TIME, Oct. 6) it floated to raise cash. Largely because of their generous yields, the issues were oversubscribed by more than 100%, and the Treasury was forced to allot securities to buyers...
...Department of History this year will allot to the Masters a certain percentage of its tutors' time for working with non-Honors Seniors in the Houses, Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the Department, said yesterday...