Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waited long enough for somebody else to ask it, so I will. How many all-time-from-first-issue TIME readers continue to be disappointed at the MARCH or TIME'S change from complete dramatization of events to just another good wartime inspirational radio program...
Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
...rules for war-contract renegotiation, which have had industry in a dither (TIME, Oct. 5), are modified to permit firm prices for fixed periods, and to limit the open period during which the Government can ask renegotiation...
Embarrassing to the State Department were the reactions of other South American countries, which began to ask questions. Why should Chile continue to receive U.S. supplies, as she did? Propaganda even spread that she was getting more than her share. Was this the way countries which had followed the U.S. foreign policy were to be rewarded? So last week Under Secretary of State Welles, architect of the Good Neighbor policy, lighted up with a hard, angry glow...
...turned out, the lady our skeptic quizzed upon entering Baker 217 was not a secretary, but Dr. Larsen herself. While mumbling his confusion and things about "thought you were a man , and just wanted to ask you a few questions," he went boldly ahead. "I've been disillusioned five successive times by my B.P.A.'s, and have decided that it is about time to do something about it. After all, it takes a man's outlook to appreciate business problems, and I don't think girls can possibly...