Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker magazine reported last week that an attorney who sent the President a similar suggestion got a vastly different answer-a form letter signed by a White House secretary, which said: "The President has asked me to thank you for your letter of April 23. He has read it with interest, and wants you to know that he is always glad to receive suggestions such as yours...
Before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee appeared Singer Paul Robeson, a long time fellow traveler, to denounce the bill. He refused to tell whether or not he is a Communist. Declared Robeson: "Nineteen men are about to go to jail for refusing to answer that question. I am prepared to join them." Nobody asked him to go to jail. The subcommittee listened to a few other witnesses, decided to end the hearings. They had already run a day longer than scheduled...
Smith College Professor Edgar Wind thinks he has found the answer. In a recently published book (Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Harvard University, $7.50), he argues that the key to the riddle is Gaea's symbolic quince. The Feast, he says, is really a wedding party; Gaea is Lucrezia Borgia; Neptune is her husband, Alfonso d'Este, who commissioned the painting...
...When. How long would it last? A firm answer was given this week in the Federal Reserve Board's third annual survey of durable goods spending. With minor reservations, it was what businessmen wanted to hear: for at least the rest of this year there will be no letup in the demand for durable goods (autos, refrigerators, etc.), the backbone of the boom. About 20 million spending units (families) bought autos, radios, washing machines...
...industry forced retailers of ready-made suits to keep big inventories to supply only a small range of materials and sizes. In addition, alterations for the hard-to-fit customer cost retailers 6% of their gross. Why not work out a method to eliminate alterations? To Booth the answer was photography-in effect, an application of the Bertillon system. He took the idea to Eastman Kodak Co., which developed the PhotoMetric camera, which anyone can operate...