Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ask any Kent alumnus. And ask him how many times he headed right for the study to "confess" before the list was made public. Ask him if he ever saw the list. Or ever knew anyone who ever saw the list...
...last July. Besides knocking out most of its powers to control prices, the committee had allowed the potent farm bloc to insert a wildly inflationary clause which Administration experts said might well bring on a rise of 20% in food costs. As for wage control, the Administration did not ask nor the committee grant any ceiling on wages...
...Therefore we ask that all men who can cooperate in any way with the proposed council on post-war peace problems which is to be formally organized this afternoon...
...maids have gone, have to make their own beds anyhow, and anybody who gets up early deserves to have to have to make his own. What little sacrifice might be entailed would be more than compensated for by the bentfits to the working women. It is an imposition to ask them to arrive at their dormitories to do the few simple tasks that are theirs on the seventh day of the week. Like all other humans they have a desire to sleep late on Sunday, and a one day vacation would be much appreciated. They would probably work the better...
Curtis Publishing Co. screwed its courage up this month to ask advertisers to pay for some of the bonus circulation they have been getting free: it announced the first increase in Satevepost ad rates since 1926. In the intervening 16 years circulation has gone up from 2,724,876 to 3,348,875, but the black & white page rate had stayed at $8,000. The new rate ($8,500) will be effective next July 4. Curtis also announced the first increase in 14 years for the Ladies' Home Journal. Last month the Journal announced a new peak circulation...