Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreamed up a new idea: a "Transcontinental Broadcasting System" big enough to compete with NBC and CBS. Through mutual friends, he appealed to John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., for $200,000 to help finance his radio ventures. Hartford met him, lent him the money, accepting Elliott's six months' note. As collateral, he took something which banks would not accept-shares of stock in some small Texas radio stations (how many shares Hartford could not remember offhand...
...Committee on Structure & Procedures had quite a week. But there could be only one result: the Committee voted 30-to-2 (with 15 eloquently abstaining) to accept the Yalta formula as interpreted by the Big Five. On the critical test - an amendment by Evatt - the "blocs" split wide open. The Empire went neatly into thirds: Australia and New Zealand voted against the Big Five formula; Britain and South Africa voted for it; Canada and India abstained. Only five Latin Americans stuck with the U.S. Even Iran, which has played close to Russia, voted against the Big Five...
...this issue within an issue, the U.S. and Britain had beat a partial retreat. Originally they said they would not resume negotiations with Moscow until the Poles were released or their arrest satisfactorily explained; now they had compromised. But on this point, the London delegates were not inclined to accept a compromise. Said Socialist ex-Minister of Labor Jan Stanczyk: "This puts us in a terrible position. How can we honestly negotiate in Moscow while our comrades are in jail somewhere near...
When Ernie Pyle died, his syndicate offered newspapers a successor: Pyle's closest friend, fellow Hoosier and ex-boss, Lee Miller, who was already in the Pacific on a news assignment (TIME, May 14). Of the 396 newspapers which had printed Pyle's column, 151 would accept no substitutes. The rest decided to give Miller a try. Probably no one had more misgivings about the substitution than Miller himself. In his first column he wrote: "Maybe I can fill the space where his copy was run, but I'm fully aware that nobody will ever fill...
...with the steel industry in the dark on probable cancellations, steel mills are in no position to accept bookings for unrated orders. If cancellations come in a late avalanche, they may throw the entire reconversion schedule out of kilter...