Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Project. In Washington, the Interior Department considered a request from a Brooklyn matron: "Dear Sirs: Will you send me some information my class is studing about...
...Food Ministry to ask permission to buy flour for his tenants with 14,000 ration coupons he had collected from them. He needed the flour, he said, to hold off the family curse imposed by his resolute ancestress. In Britain, where curses have a longer history than rationing, the request was granted...
...Peru, where nothing can be imported without a license, restrictions are just as drastic. Every request for a permit must be published in the official El Peruano (including the intention to spend $8.50 from a U.S. bank account for a subscription to TIME). Even so, Peruvians' funds are so tight that half the applications to import machinery, locomotives, lathes, trucks, etc. are turned down. Since last March, the Government itself has spent 14% of Peru's foreign exchange, mainly for food bought in Chile and Argentina and sold to the public at a loss...
Receipts stood at the $20,535 mark late last night as the Food Relief Committee decided to appeal for a second time to 1515 faculty members who have as yet failed to respond to a mailed request dispatched early in the campaign...
...read his resignation in a slow, composed voice, using the Shanghai dialect. "Three times during the course of the last year I submitted my resignation. . . . The Generalissimo has finally granted my request." Then he described how the national currency had been secured by silver specie until 1935, when the U.S. policy of high prices for silver drained China's reserves, forcing her to adopt managed currency. Managed currency depended on the people and Government "exercising self-restraint"; there had been too little self-restraint. "The managed-currency system that saved China contained in it the germs of the poison...