Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Liverpool Cotton Exchange, where for decades British buyers and world sellers took the risks and losses and profits of the cotton trade. A British Government commission now does Britain's cotton buying. Britain's spinners now pay more for their cotton than spinners elsewhere with access to free markets, but British planners argue that, if they relax their trade tourniquets too much, the economy may bleed to death...
...Allen persistently regards himself as "just a man who can write good comedy lines." This certainty about his limitations descends, like a black hole, to the bottom of his brain. It allows the very basis of his thinking a cold, immediate access to the facts of living. Certainly few entertainers are so comfortlessly close to reality as Allen; still fewer are crowded so hard by sanity. Often his wit appears to be a cushion against hard fact. More often it seems an act of reprisal. He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees...
Your reference [TIME, March 10] to "a disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C."-without stating his name-is causing more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
...Geneva, sit down with delegates of 17 other nations* and try to write the most ambitious contract for reciprocal lowering of tariffs the world has seen, and lay the foundation of an International Trade Organization. Every one of the 17 nations which will grant the U.S. greater access to their markets will be granted the same access to U.S. markets. Under the 1945 extension of the Trade Agreements Act, State can, without congressional approval, cut Jan. i, 1945 tariff rates...
...believed, a world already weakened by war stands on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic. The policy of the University medical men must be one of watchful waiting. They should decide now how best they could vaccinate men wholesale in case of emergency. They should assure ready access to stocks of vaccine, if and when an epidemic strikes. The storm signals are flying; the Hygiene Department must batten its preventive hatches...