Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later on in his testimony Douglas proved to be unaware that the Air Force...
...with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
...once more unanimous-but with a difference: the new year will see a sharp dip during the first half, followed by an upturn in the last six months, helped along by big increases in Government spending. Will the first-half softening lead to price cuts in key industries? The answer seems to be no. Few industries, as demand eased, were talking of price cuts. Instead, they were hastily chopping production, keeping inventories down and, like their customers, living from hand to mouth while they waited for business to improve...
...billion) may slip less than 5% in 1958. One of the major battles of 1958 will be over U.S. tariff walls and reciprocal trade pacts, with traders insisting that the U.S. does not buy enough and protectionists insisting that it buys too much. Yet in 1957, an encouraging answer to critics who say the U.S. does not trade enough was the case of foreign automakers: they boldly invaded Detroit's home grounds, boosted their sales of small cars by 110% to 235.000. Beyond trade, world-minded businessmen, who once looked only at U.S. gross national product but now talk...
...brought along his oxygen tent. To scuttle the scuttlebutt, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty opened his thrice-daily press conference to the whole NATO press corps instead of the comparative dozens of correspondents who normally attend his briefings, and solemnly tried to give some sort of answer to almost all of the reporters' dogged, intimate, picayune questions...