Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the story appeared, Mr. Dobbs says he has heard from just about everybody he ever knew, from nine railroads (about his plan to supply meals to dining cars), and from hundreds of people who want to work for him or sell him something. Says he: "I can still hardly go anywhere but somebody doesn't say, 'I saw your picture in TIME.' I never knew so many people read TIME...
Three years ago L. A. Rojas-Cruz, of Bogotá, Colombia, received a letter from us inviting him to subscribe to TIME'S Latin America edition, which is printed in English. Recently we heard from him as follows: "When I received your offer ... I was just starting to take English lessons and I could not read the letter. Now that I can I am anxious to get a subscription . . . and so would like to know the new rate...
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
...audience of about 40 heard him stress the importance of former colonial areas with their tremendous populations. These areas will turn to communism as a means of maintaining order, he stated, if they are not well-trained in democracy before being granted their independence...
...whole, the percentage of Americans who are suffering real deprivation is small indeed as compared with other peoples, and the percentage of those who are living in comfort, who enjoy the possessions of such luxuries as automobiles and radios, is far, far beyond that ever seen or heard of elsewhere. We are doing well, but we feel, and rightly so, that we are not doing well enough...