Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Answer to France...
This is my answer to that unknown Frenchwoman who wrote the letter entitled "Speak to Us" [TIME, Oct. 28]: Chere Madame...
...Salt Lake City flew Civil Aeronautics Board men to investigate the second crash on U. S. airlines in 65 days-after a 17-month period in which not a single life was lost. But Pilot Fey's flying friends thought they already knew the answer. The beam must have failed just as he turned off into the "A" zone to head south. Angling back on to the steady hum of the beam before heading south to the airport, he should have heard the cheeping dot-dash of the "A" until he picked up the steady hum of the course...
...flourishing business of quizzing the U. S. populace has few practitioners more indefatigable than Parks Johnson & Wal lace Butterworth, who serve as interlocutors for the CBS show, Vox Pop. Together they have wandered up & down the land paying citizens $1 to answer such queries as: How many feathers on the average hen?* What was our President's name 30 years ago?† Should a gentleman remove his hat before striking a lady?**Along with this pert questionnaire, Vox Pop offers its listeners interviews with cinema stars, politicos, "typical Americans," statistics on the number of one-armed paper hangers, wooden...
...midnight alarm, the race through crowded or icy streets, and the calm heroism obscured by heavy smoke. He forgets that there are always a couple of the men doing their loafing in the Cambridge City Hospital and that from an occasional one of the 1800 alarms the engines answer each year some fireman doesn't return...