Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulate you on an excellent psychological report on the really dire situation in which our [Berlin] occupation forces find themselves [TIME, July...
...Names Please. "We'll find out what's there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
Last week the House of Commons took stock of the government's African policy. Before it lay a scathing report of an all-party Estimates Committee which had examined on the spot a $220 million plan for Nigerian development. The committee found (and the Commons debate tended to confirm): "[The plan] does not propound a complete strategy of development. It is merely an aggregate of proposals for spending the money. If the ten-year plan were carried out overnight . . . improvement . . . would be barely perceptible...
...What the report said about Nigeria applied, in greater or less degree, to all colonial British Africa. The verdict was especially devastating in the light of the hopes that had been based on African development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report thought it had some fever-hot news: U.S. employment, production, income, prices and profits were all close to record highs in June. Yet by the time the committee reported its figures last week, they were already out of date. Everything had gone higher-and was still rising...