Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company, finding itself unable to operate at a fair profit after granting an increase set through bargaining, may go to the Office of Price Administration after six months and ask for a lift in its price ceilings...
...floor of Congress, Minnesota's egg-bald Representative Harold Knutson said: "This is definitely a labor government, and there can no longer be any doubt that the President proposes to give labor all that they ask for, and perhaps more. ... If [he] wants to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and purchase his re-election at the expense of the public, the onus for doing so must rest upon...
...driving to Lucy's house to borrow one of her legendary recipes. When a new Catholic priest came to town, Lucy prepared the barbecue with which the parish welcomed him. She gave generously to the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and charities, cackling happily: "Jist don't ask where the money came from...
...this point the committee began to ask questions. Would this plan preserve the unity of action the services had worked out, laboriously and wastefully, during the war? How would the plan work, in smaller detail? Secretary Forrestal's answer was unsatisfactory. The details, he said, would have to be withheld: they were under study by the Senate and House Nav al Affairs Committees. Besides, he added, he was not actually sponsoring the plan, yet ; he just hoped that it would be studied...
...committee who blinked at this observation : Admiral King was famed during the war for keeping civilian noses out of admirals' business. They blinked again when orthodox Admiral King said he thought a single department would "lend itself to the dangers of orthodoxy." But they stopped blinking and began asking angry questions when the Admiral insisted that the Navy's postwar program was not to be "adjusted downward when the Army sees fit." At that point Ernie King had walked into the blades of one of the Army's best meat-chopper arguments: George Marshall had pointed...