Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the Air Force answer was blunt: there was no reason for a second strategic air arm when its land-based 6-365 could already deliver bomb loads to any spot in the world. Besides, the airmen pointed out, the Navy could not land its heavy bombers once they had taken off. In the Air Force view, the supercarrier was a needlessly expensive duplication which could not complete its mission without the help of Air Force landing fields...
...Hill) before Congress. Both would pay the premiums of the poor so that they could join such voluntary private health-insurance programs as the Blue Cross which already cover 50 million Americans. Taft's bill also provides federal subsidies for training doctors and building hospitals. Truman's answer to these bills: "Medical care is needed as a right, not as a medical dole." One sign of the trouble the President's bill faces: seven of the 13 members of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee (including two Democrats) are already committed either to the Taft...
Alice In Wonderland. Freshman Douglas stood his ground. He was as solid as any man for civil rights. But, he cried, "What would happen if we adopted the Bricker amendment? The answer is very simple. It would inevitably defeat the whole housing bill itself . . . It is no idle mind reading when I say that the adoption of his amendment would not win over the junior Senator from Ohio to support of the bill which he so sincerely dislikes . . . Senators will probably remember the passage in Alice in Wonderland describing the smile of the Cheshire Cat, which continued after...
...Angeles barflies were intrigued by a new diversion: automatic quiz machines. For 5? ginmill intellectuals could try to answer five questions of 6,000 printed on a motion-picture reel...
Since Kenneth Roberts has been writing for 40 years (and cranking out bestsellers for a good many of them), would-be writers keep coming to him for advice. Will he tell them how to do it? So many people have badgered him for the answer, says Roberts, that he decided to write this autobiography. His point, across 471 pages: writing gets done not by talking about it or thinking about it, but by sitting down and doing it. Roberts knows...