Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing body of U.S. opinion answers, "Soon." U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder is about to leave for Europe in a mood to ask European financial authorities why general devaluation, beginning with the pound, should not start...
...make up for the drop in peso income, Gonzalez Videla was ready to ask Chile's Congress for permission to issue new paper money. With part of the money, backed by government-supported bonds, idle copper hands would be employed on public works projects...
...help only 25%," says Dr. Rhoads, "and they have remissions only. Their disease will recur and recur, perhaps in more violent form. Some people ask, 'Why keep them alive, if they must die eventually?' But we're moving faster now. Perhaps, before they exhaust their last remission, we'll have something really good. And you've seen how happy they...
Those whose profits had been nipped by the recession were finding some consolation around the bargaining table. The powerful C.I.O. Textile Workers Union reluctantly decided not to ask for wage increases for its 120,000 members in the cotton-rayon industry when the present contracts expire in September. The Ford Motor Co. also decided the time had come for plain talking. It turned down the U.A.W.'s wage and pension demands and proposed freezing wages for 18 months. Said Ford's Bargainer John S. Bugas: "It would be utter folly to take any action which would increase...
...audience of 1000 fanned themselves in 95.3 degree heat, the highest in history for June 21, and heard Class Orator J. Philip Bahn ask for more scholarships to insure the future of "expanded opportunity" in education...