Word: allows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were possible to cap the human ego like a gas well, and to pipe off its more volatile byproducts as fuel, Houston's multi-millionaire wildcatter Glenn McCarthy could heat a city the size of Omaha with no help at all. Whether he would allow his rampant psyche to be dedicated completely to so prosaic a project, however, is doubtful-several million cubic feet would undoubtedly be diverted to a McCarthy Memorial Beacon which would nightly cast its glare as far west as El Paso...
...Acquisitive Eye. In an age when most businessmen allow themselves to be governed by politicians, unions, directors, psychiatrists, the threat of ulcers and the precepts of Emily Post, McCarthy holds himself accountable only to McCarthy. Both in his bull-like determination to make himself Houston's first citizen and in the conduct of his business empire-which includes vast oil holdings, Houston's radio station KXYZ, a chemical works, 14 neighborhood newspapers and a swank men's shop-he often seems a throwback to the lustier days of the 19th Century...
...columns were told to "Stop Colds Among Your Employees," but in the stricter Times, the same product promised merely to "Help Reduce Absenteeism Due to Colds." In Chicago, the old question of race discrimination in advertising was an issue. Three of the four Chicago dailies still allow "For Colored" in rent ads, to indicate that the advertised apartments or houses are located in the Negro sections of town. The Chicago Tribune, responding to requests, has just banned the race tag from its ads. Newspapers have generally dropped such anti-Semitic phrases as "Restricted" or "Selected Clientele" in their...
...past enrollment. For the purchase of new equipment and limited expansion, the bill also provides the Surgeon General with a fund to distribute, as he sees fit, to the various schools. As the Association of American Medical Schools points out, this aid will barely maintain medical standards, let alone allow enlarging of the student body...
...Cambridge School Committee, which refused to allow Harold J. Laski to speak in the Cambridge High Auditorium last spring, has allowed Blanshard to speak, "because the presence of Father Dunne insures a fair debate...