Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When you get out of college," he advises further, "get as many experiences as you can on as many papers as you can." The point of the diversified experience is, he explains, "to learn the right questions to ask...
...Some ask why Don Strauss, and Bea Nielsen are so chummy of late--a smile on the lips of many third decors will reveal the answer. Our premature "obituary" on Cagey Pickle caused some comment. Hereafter we will venture to predict nothing. M.C. Smith, who is getting older by the day, is nominated by the Millsaps Mariner, Bill Stark, as an eager beaver--how come? Jim "Cadence" Polhemus finally brought marine cadence to Briggs Cage. Yes, "the Hook" really got his chance when "the Orator" instigated rotating command. This innovation has uncovered many varieties of cadence existing here...
...young Naval reservist and she was doing something for the boys. The new face in the triumvirate is ruddy-cheeked, fastidious. North Carolina-born, Yale-trained Banker Hanes, 52, who joined Hearst in 1940. Wall-Streeter Hanes once defined himself as a "financial doctor" who did not ask his patient's politics before trying to make him well...
What the OPA-WPB team now proposes to do is so kindergarten-simple in outline that consumers might well ask why it was not done long ago. WPB will tighten its control over the supply of cloth to converters and clothing manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 4). Cloth will be released only for the types of clothing WPB wants produced, and within certain price ranges. Meanwhile, OPA will roll back prices to 1943 levels. Thus WPB can force garment manufacturers to switch their output back to inexpensive underwear, shirts, house dresses and other scarce articles...
...keeping agricultural prices from going through the roof (which set taxpayers back a cool $700 to $800 million for subsidy payments to farmers last year) may be much higher in 1945. This fact came out last week when War Food Administrator Marvin Jones bravely marched up Capitol Hill to ask the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to: 1) extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp., which expires June 30, for two more years; 2) expand CCC's borrowing power from $3 billion to $5 billion...