Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois miners would get an additional $2 a day, and almost all other mine operators would virtually be compelled to follow suit. WLB might order a smaller increase, but some upping of the pay scale seemed certain. And when the miners' pay goes up, mine operators will ask OPA for a coal price increase ; railroads in turn will ask the ICC for a freight rate increase, and the inflationary spiral will be in full motion...
...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
Replied Riebel: "Oh, I've dreaded that question more than any the committee could ask. It's a matter of embarrassment to a dear, dear friend of mine. . . . I say a little prayer every night for Kaiser's success at Brewster...
Heeren is seldom told what a chemical is wanted for, but in most cases he can make a shrewd guess. Because many a chemical, like Michler's ketone, is known by more than one name, Heeren's file is a complicated affair. Once a chemist asked for sodium propionate; after long research Heeren discovered that this rarity was made in hundreds of tons as an insecticide under the trade name "Mycoban." He learned to watch out for requests from cranks and small-boy amateurs who some times ask for dangerous ingredients. His mail varies between advanced chemical information...