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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...customers walked out with a package. Last week 60 clerks who had been laid off reported for unemployment compensation. At the weekly meeting, the manager of the Sears, Roebuck store lectured his employees: "This week we dropped another $11,000 from our previous week ... I must ask you to watch every penny, be it in the cash register or in the electric bill. We can't stand waste of any kind-it will mean additional layoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tale of a City | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Lange had taken the U.S. side in that dispute. Now he had come to ask what arms Norway would get if she joined up with the U.S. He took his answer home with him as a secret. But Washington and Europe-knew that the answer was vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: But, Don't Go Near the Water | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...generation of quibbling, cult-minded, critical cognoscenti has called New Orleans jazz many things, from "a rich and frequently dissonant polyphony" to "this dynamism [which] interprets life at its maximum intensity." But Louis grins wickedly and says: "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know." In his boyhood New Orleans, jazz was simply a story told in strongly rhythmic song, pumped out "from the heart" with a nervous, exciting beat. To Trumpeter Louis, jazz is still storytelling: "I like to tell them things that come naturally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Administration and traders, who had thought support loans and exports would prop up prices, were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Wave | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Kerr still has time for prayer meetings and choir practice, In her way of life, religion and business are inextricably mixed. Whenever a Kerr glass furnace is relit after a shutdown, a minister is called in to ask a blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Lord Helps Those . . . | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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