Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew again to Paris. No one needed to inquire what he had come to ask of Premier Reynaud, Vice Premier Pétain and the Generalissimo: could Weygand rescue the B. E. F.? It was probably too late to withdraw it by sea-any major part of it at least. Battle was joined and if disaster was at hand, nothing could prevent it from being the worst defeat that Britain ever suffered. While the leaders were facing that fact, Weygand excused himself, saying he had forgotten some papers, and nipped up two flights of stairs...
...summer to 370% of the pre-war level, met with the new War Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...
...note: The Crimson has received many letters dealing with the European war, several of which are printed below. We invite further communications, and ask that they be kept to a reasonable length...
...late hour for Britain to ask miracles of aircraft production. But Lord Beaverbrook, a friend of Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair and a buddy of U. S. Ambassador Joe Kennedy, wasted no time lamenting. He got to work. The study of his palatial Stornoway House in London became his Ministry. He launched a lightning survey of the present status of British aircraft production, ripped out orders which brought aircraft-factory heads scrambling from all over the kingdom for lightning interviews with The Beaver. Most important of all, pals Max and Joe conferred regarding acceleration of U. S. aircraft shipments...
...will say. Well, ask any old boy of the '80s what he coveted most in athletic honors...