Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Indiana Farm Bureau began polling its members about their 1949 vacation plans. Usually the Farm Bureau sponsors tours around the U.S. This time, for the first time, the bureau had a question to ask prospering Hoosier farmers: How would they like sponsored tours to Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, South America...
Next month, Dave Beck's agents will begin descending on drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
...American, not yet familiar with all the implications of the welfare state, may ask why capital has to be replaced out of "a fund of public savings." When new machines or other capital goods are needed in the U.S., they are normally paid for by the investment of the savings of those private individuals who have more than they require to support life. In general, these individuals make up "the middle class...
...blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary for the whole nation--not just veterans. And if Rankin gets most of what he wants, the United States might as well get ready to ask Western Europe for a Marshall Plan in reverse...