Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada and 60 overseas where TIME requires independent coverage but not fulltime representation. In each, TIME has a local correspondent (called a "string correspondent" or "stringer") to watch for news stories of more than local interest, to cover special assignments for our editors, to answer their queries, and to keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking...
...Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building...
...Peake, Britain's delegate. Stung, but not exactly hopping, Sir Charles announced that he would reply to Vishinsky the next day. When Sir Charles was ready to speak, Vishinsky cracked that he was happy to note that the British representative "after 72 hours had gathered enough strength to answer...
Here the Red Queen began again. "Can you answer useful questions?" she said. "How is bread made...
...midyear report last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers hailed the prospect of bumper crops as the one strong force which "should be of signal aid in checking of inflation." But was it? Thanks to the farm bloc and the Government crop-support program, the answer seemed likely to be no, at least for months to come...