Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets, the answer is still unclear and the problem increasingly acute. To date, in the absence of international agreement, offenders have been prosecuted by arrangements (sometimes of questionable legality) between the individual countries involved, or have gone scot-free because no court could decide on jurisdiction...
Last week U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs Henry Kearns, a former California automobile dealer, gave a blunt answer to the question. Such fears, he told the Toronto Board of Trade, came as a "shock and a surprise" to Americans, who have been "perhaps somewhat naively proud" of the part U.S. capital has played in the economic development of friendly nations -and particularly in Canada's postwar boom. Since 1953, he said, for every dollar withdrawn from Canada as an investment profit, U.S. firms have reinvested more than $2 in Canada's long-term growth. They...
...Sensing an intimate glimpse into luxury-liner indiscretion, the British press tried to give an answer, leaped wildly on the story. Where facts failed, imagination soared. Headlined the Daily Express: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. PASSENGERS SAW THE LADY'S DRESS GO ZZZ ... ZIP! The woman whose fastener broke on a recent transatlantic run-and whose dress nearly slipped off-was attractive Mrs. Susan Silverstone, thirtyish, of Manhattan, who was promptly dubbed "Black-Eyed Susan." Passengers confirmed the incident, but it was not until farther down in the story that readers discovered where Captain Armstrong...
...Manager Mrs. Adeline Watson: "I'm sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing Co. has found one answer for that problem: Luminall Lawn Tint, a green paint that can be used to spray over all those brown spots...
...Blue Angel (20th Century-Fox). "Could a man have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...