Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army, a banner waved over their heads saying: "Vive I'Union Guinée-Ghana!" But last week, as Nkrumah started his long, 21-day conference with Touré, the big question was: How much life is there in their union...
...Dutchman when he saw Sooi, "have you got a license to import those pigs?" Retorted Sooi: "I am on Belgian soil-Hertog soil." It soon turned out that in a way he was right: in their treaty of 1843 Holland and Belgium had decided that the land in question was Dutch, but because of an error of a sleepy clerk, it was listed as Belgian-as Sooi subsequently proved in court...
Drastic steps may be necessary to restore economic health. Neither a subsidy nor a public utility, the U.S. daily press is free private enterprise, and owes its existence to the profit margin. "The question is," writes Hartford Courant Editor Herbert Brucker in the Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids...
...compete at home or abroad. You hear of business being lost to foreign firms. This should give us cause to ponder, particularly about losses in lines where we have traditionally had an advantage. And firms can price themselves out of domestic markets, too. This should lead us to question whether job opportunities would not be greater if some prices were lower...
...explanation, until Peter spoke up: "Why did General Development stock rise so fast and then drop so fast?" President Frank Mackle pleaded embarrassed ignorance: "Son, I don't know too much about the stock market. It goes up and down. My son asked me the same question, and I couldn't answer...