Word: ask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEOUL--Government officials say South Korea is expected to ask the Development Loan Fund for $3,900,000 to help build Seoul's first subway. The Transportation Ministry says total cost of the proposed subway would be 25 million dollars...
...campaign strategy of Adlai Stevenson, phantom candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (TIME, Oct. 5), was sadly reaffirmed by another Democratic hopeful, who went to Stevenson to ask for his endorsement and anonymously told about the outcome last week. Adlai replied that 1) he would endorse no one, at least not until after the presidential primaries; 2) he will not withdraw his own name from speculation, but 3) he will make no overt effort to obtain the Democratic nomination. In Cheyenne, Wyo., Democratic Pacemaker John Kennedy tut-tutted such coy stratagems. Said he: "The primaries are going to be decisive...
...from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans ask: Why wait for disaster...
...about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement. Actually, the boy's father is just a man his mother married when she found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde who consults only her own pleasure and takes it where the grass is greener. She works all day in an office. At night she gives her son the back of her tongue and the heel...
...week's end the stock had firmed a bit, was back to 36½. But both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any other officer had bought or sold C-W stock recently. SEC Regional Administrator Paul Windels Jr. questioned Hurley about the price movements of the stock. Said Windels: "We are investigating to see if this sequence of corporation actions was done deliberately to have an effect on the market...