Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write TIME and ask them to revise their statement?" he asked...
...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...
John D. Rockefeller Jr., World's No. 1 Giver, had some advice for United Service Organizations fund solicitors: "Don't use the holdup method. . . . Don't tell people that it is their duty . . . never embarrass a prospect . . . don't ask friends at theaters and teas. . . . Never apologize...
Said one agent after the meeting was over: "You ask questions and where are the answers? Until somebody can tell a fellow who has an A-1-a priorities order how he can get delivery of materials in less than nine months, a lot of these fellows are going home and do what they've been doing right along-buy as much as they...
Gano Dunn's figures were as of April 30. Since then the railroads have drastically increased their estimates of car needs, and equipment builders are howling that they can't get steel. Since then a looming power shortage has caused public powerites to ask for more generators. Since then diversion of tankers to the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool has enforced huge orders for pipelines; the aircraft program has once more been enlarged; a further increase in shipbuilding is projected. Since then Crete has fallen. Puzzled laymen wondered whether Mr. Dunn's next quarterly report would...