Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Wright: TIME'S quotation of your conversation with them ... is entirely false. I was present when you spoke over the telephone to them and in reply to their questions you said: 'No, I have received no request from Japan nor from anyone to rebuild the part of the hotel that was damaged-but even if I were to receive such a request I would have to turn it down because I am much too busy at work building in my own country to go to any other country to build at this time. Besides, I prefer...
...facts: Domei reported the hotel management's request, and TIME disrespectfully condensed arrogant Architect Wright's adjectival reaction...
...Minister of Economics Walther Funk wept: "I can request counsel at once, can't I? I am trying to preserve my health. I have the greatest interest in the conclusion of this trial...
...only places where wartime blood donors have yet been asked to continue are Michigan and southeastern Massachusetts. Michigan's donors never stopped, are now bled under the auspices of the State Health Department and the Red Cross. In Massachusetts, by citizens' request, a Red Cross truck will start collecting at local chapters, around November 15. Municipal laboratories will process the blood, and hospitals and doctors can get it free; a doctor can keep a supply in his icebox if he likes. If the system works, it will be expanded to the rest of Massachusetts. National headquarters has notified...
...knows where OPA will set the ceiling price for Detroit's new cars. But last week, OPA said flatly what prices are above the ceiling. It turned down a request of the Ford Motor Co., the first to apply for a 10-to-15% increase in 1942 car prices. The OPA suggested that Ford modify its increase, but did not say how much. This put Ford's round-faced sales manager, John Raymond Davis, on the hottest competitive spot in the industry...