Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...
...talk, sponsored by the Council of Government Concentrators, is to begin at 8:00 o'clock. It is the first of a series of "Cross-Question Hours" sponsored by the council...
...demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
...more than a decade air line pilots have been flying in and out of the obstructed, 147-acre Washington Airport with their fingers crossed. During that time, while Congress after Congress has passed the buck on the question of providing an adequate airport for the nation's capital, option-mongers have been busily cornering most available sites. One they could not corner, however, was that proposed at Gravelly Point, because 1) it lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly...
...commodities"-wheat, sugar, cottonseed oil-plummeted; other commodities-rubber, silk, hides, cocoa, cotton-zoomed. Marine insurance rates on war risk for gold shipments were cut in half. Brokers resumed plans for new financing, which had sunk to the lowest September volume in three years. And with the overwhelming question of war at least postponed, U.S. businessmen returned to the question of business prospects...