Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the inventor, Mrs. Ruth Lawrence, wife of a U.S. Army colonel, was hearing from some other interested parties. Said she last week to our Birmingham correspondent: "After the story appeared in TIME we were deluged with telegrams, orders and letters. I had to hire two stenographers to answer them. There were literally trunksful of letters inquiring about the ripper. The money sent to us in envelopes was amazing, but it was all sent back because we were not in production at the time. There were also phone calls and cables from Italy, South America, Japan, Alaska, Germany, and other...
Reclamation is not the answer as far as the moderate Socialists in De Gasperi's government are concerned. Led by highbrowed Giuseppe Saragat, this faction has pressured the Christian Democrats toward a new plan of land redistribution by progressive stages. Some 8,760 landholders would be affected. The state would buy up to 50% of the big holdings for resale, on easy terms, to small peasants. In the face of latifondiari resistance, the program will be hard to put over...
...money that Bloomfield needed, called for publicity. So Schweitzer printed his request and Newman's answer side by side in a pamphlet and mailed thousands of copies of it all over the country...
...final committee report threw out all charges except that Gundlach had refused to answer a question put to him by President Allen as to his membership in the Communist Party. It found that Gundlach's equivocation on this issue, together with his "unsatisfactory relations" with the university administration, constituted neglect of only and were sufficient grounds for dismissal. Four members out of, 11 dissented from this opinion President Allen found the majority report to his liking. As did the Board of Regents...
Actually, a fare increase is a reasonable answer to the problem; cities like Detroit and Washington have had a two-for-a-quarter token system for five years now. One suggestion offered has been to scale the fare in proportion to the distance that a person travels. For instance, the rate on an outlying line, say from Watertown to Harvard Square, would be six cents; the intown rate on one of the main transit lines would be ten cents. Thus the maximum fare for traveling the length of the system (two outlying lines and a main line) would...