Word: explained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Field Hand James Morning, Farmer John Williams and Missionary Baptist Preacher Robert Daniels began talking up the idea. They got Bard McAllister, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee, to come over from Visalia to help. For four years McAllister worked and argued with the people, tried to explain how a community effort could bring running water into their homes...
...separate settlement (TIME, Nov. 9). Opposed to Mitchell are White House economic counselors led by Presidential Adviser Raymond Saulnier, who insist that the U.S. public has a stake in seeing to it that the settlement terms are non-inflationary.*Largely because of this split, the Administration has failed to explain clearly enough what the strike is about...
...basic 2-B dispute has been befogged by both sides: by McDonald's charges that the steel industry is out to "bust the union," and by the industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government...
...explain to their Detroit neighbors where all their money was coming from, retired Police Sergeant Glenn Averill and his wife Mamie worked out a simple, effective routine. Glenn would tell prying questioners that his wife had inherited a lot of money. Mamie would turn aside the inquisitive by hinting that her husband came from a wealthy family...
...when Erlander's Finance Minister submitted his new budget, reiterating Erlander's promise not to raise taxes, he did not explain how the government could cover its expected $490 million budget deficit without an inflationary increase in Sweden's soaring national debt (up from $2.4 billion in 1951 to $3.8 billion in 1958). Committed to a $90 million increase in welfare benefits (to $876 million) and unwilling to cut the $540 million for defense, Erlander had to abandon his tax-free dream. To the Riksdag he proposed a most unsocialistic solution: a 4% turnover (sales...