Word: plead
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Many businessmen simply ignore foreign requests for information and prices on their products. The Commerce Department had to plead with one St. Louis machine-tool maker to answer repeated inquiries from a British company (in the end, he made a sale). One machinery man- ufacturer in the state of Washington still stubbornly refuses to answer an inquiry from Australia. And only after Commerce Department urging did a Minneapolis firm reluctantly agree to sell its special lubricating oil to Nigeria. Too often foreign trade seems too complicated, too marginal and too risky...
...South African newspaper offices, desk men have begun keeping the list next to their style books and headline charts. Reporting the trial of Union Leader Leon Levy, charged with attending a meeting, the Johannesburg Star said, "Magistrate H. J. Bosnian asked, 'How do you plead?' Levy: (He did plead but his words cannot be published...
...need for the U.S. to keep ahead in the nuclear arms race. Shortly after his appointment to the AEC in 1946, he recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered $1,000,000 out of his own pocket to speed up procurement. A scant four months after the monitoring began, a Russian blast was detected...
...World War II; but most of them are run on the cheap, and the net result has amounted to air pollution. "In too many communities," said Minow, "to twist the radio dial today is to be shoved through a bazaar, a clamorous casbah of pitchmen and commercials which plead, bleat, pressure, whistle, groan and shout. Too many stations have turned themselves into publicly franchised jukeboxes." And, unfortunately, "radio stations do not fade away, they just multiply." To consider everything from a tightening of regulations over radio commercials to a possible moratorium on licenses for new AM stations, he proposed...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 16--Many of the 1400 students who came to Washington to plead for peace and an end to nuclear testing are tired, disappointed, and frustrated tonight...