Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California exchanged long-range insults with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, chairman of the full senatorial committee. Speaking as chief stockholder of T.W.A., Hughes proclaimed (in a series of signed articles in the Hearst papers) that the real reason behind the investigation was Hughes's refusal to accept an offer of merger with Brewster's good friend Juan Trippe of Pan-American. In Washington, Brewster promptly offered to waive congressional immunity and take the stand. He piously referred newsmen to Nehemiah 6* for his answer to Hughes...
Republican leaders also agreed on a cease-fire order. Indirectly, they turned down the U.S. "good offices." They said they would accept arbitration by "several countries" under U.N. supervision...
Next of Attlee's emergency meetings was a huddle with leaders of the Trade Union Council. Asked Attlee: would the unions again accept wartime regulations forbidding workers to leave essential industries; would they please stop being stubborn about keeping able and willing foreign workers out of the factories? The union leaders agreed. But they still had to make that agreement stick with their membership, including a sizable bloc of Communist shop stewards...
...internal debt." Brazilians had never thought of that. "The U.S.," he continued, "did not grow solely from within-but . . . through the introduction of additional manpower, of additional technical knowledge, and by the addition of foreign capital. . . . Brazil has a great opportunity for future development . . . if it can learn to accept foreign capital as a partner...
Last week, Coronet announced that it would now, for the first time, accept advertising. To advertisers (and the Audit Bureau of Circulations), Coronet would only guarantee an average net paid circulation...