Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lush young models in picture hats drove 45 miles from Seattle. Half a dozen dairy greats flew 1,743 miles from Chicago for the event. Reporters swarmed around the platform where Capper posed behind velvet ropes. Milker Gockerell took his place, started to milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas of her own. She's got feelings." Capper calmly chewed her cud, gave down her winning quarts...
...shouted from the opposite street corner, "Hey Bal! How about this Post War Council?" He mumbled something about rushing off to a wedding at Concord and how important it was for the post-war world that people get married right now. We agreed, somewhat enviously, and went on to ask some routine questions. His foot was on the gas and his gear in first the whole time, but we managed to get a general idea, as general ideas...
...estimates is the Hooper rating, a percentage arrived at by the simplest of cross-section sampling. To get a rating, 120 Hooper field workers (all former telephone girls) in 32 key cities make phone calls at a rate of 3,000 an hour during the broadcast being checked. They ask three questions: "Were you listening to your radio just now? To what program? Over what station?" Homes which don't answer are counted as non-listeners...
...chromium, copper and aluminum age and developed a method of painting on metal. Now she has only enough war metal on hand to see her through this year. A mural commissioned by International Business Machines has been shelved for the duration, because neither she nor the company cares to ask for a priority on the necessary steel. She can still paint on silver and gold, but hopes technological strides will release less expensive materials...
...times like these, one is forced to ask one's self: "What is patriotism?" Some, like the editors of PM, know without asking themselves, but most ordinary citizens are dependent on the definitions of Noah Webster. Yet Noah is so unbelievably inadequate. "Devotion to welfare of one's country," he replies, with an off-hand glibness. Didn't he have room to go into the matter more thoroughly, or was he just plain naive...