Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Dispatch and the A.P. still hoped the story was legitimate, but they found it hard to answer the Portland Oregonian's Assistant Managing Editor Edward M. Miller, who had exposed the same old yarn as a fraud in 1935. He wired A.P.: THAT GAL MUST BE GETTING
...recede from the front pages last week, they left many a second-day thought in U.S. city rooms and editorial offices. How well did the U.S. press cover the revolution in Cuba? While there were some examples of fine reporting as well as cases of sheer irresponsibility, the answer that most newsmen reluctantly reached about the overall performance was: Not very good...
...often do people get sick? The U.S. Public Health Service gave an answer last week when it reported on its survey of the nation's health in the twelvemonth ended June 30, made by sending investigators to a cross-section sample of 36,000 homes in 330 areas, checking on 115,000 individuals (TIME, May 20, 1957). The findings, extended to the whole U.S. population: ¶ Illnesses and injuries severe enough to require medical attention or keep the victim at home totaled 437,886,000, an average of 2.6 for every American. ¶ The weaker sex was only slightly...
...strong upturn in steel was in answer to rising consumption, plus a rush to build inventories as a hedge against a steel strike this summer. The three-year contract with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Steelworkers runs out July 1, and the steel union has already done some tough talking about the big pay package-estimated at $1 billion a year in wage increases and benefits-it expects to demand. Most steelmen, along with their customers, expect a strike. The automakers, trying to lay in enough steel for their 1959 models and part of their 1960 production, guaranteed their suppliers against...
...books about present-day Russia, one is an information-packed Baedeker; the other is a cry from the heart. Correspondent Levine. who for the past three years has broadcast from Moscow for NBC. got the idea for his volume from a weekly radio program in which he answered questions sent in by U.S. listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with anecdotes and jokes...