Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, Rensburg's office was full of villagers protesting against dilapidated hovels, noisome shops and tumbledown factories. Rensburg took scrupulous notes on each report. Then he went to investigate. He gave some storekeepers 24 hours to close down their businesses. He revoked licenses right & left. He condemned some buildings as unsafe and ordered immediate structural repairs on the local butcher shop. Butcher Sam Wiseman was so frightened that he promptly called a contractor and begged him to work over the weekend...
...fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership. A man who finds relaxation in flying planes and playing Mozart on the piano, he thinks he will have "a great opportunity for leadership." He was one of the authors of the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947), calling for doubled college enrollments by 1960; believes the government should play a big role in bringing that about. "I'll have," says he, "an interesting life...
Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
Like everyone else, Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report wanted to know what was happening to the U.S. economy. Did rising unemployment and falling commodity prices mean a recession? Or would it be just a temporary letdown? Last week the committee called in economists, unionists, farm leaders and businessmen to find out. Among them was Economist A.D.H. Kaplan of the Brookings Institution, who had an economic explanation that everyone could understand...
Last week, when Tobey published a 28-page report on his findings, Congress got its first good look at such tax-exempt trusts (there are an estimated 10,000 in the U.S.) and it made Congressmen's eyes pop. Tobey charged that...