Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chided correspondents for asking, four months after he had found the answer, whether U. S. citizens could join foreign armies without losing citizenship. Answer: Yes (if they do not swear allegiance to the foreign government concerned...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
London did not answer promptly enough to suit the Japanese. What Sir Robert said on his own hook only made them angrier. There was nothing extraordinary, he pointed out, about the boarding. In World War I, Allied cruisers boarded 64 neutral vessels and took off 3,500 subjects of the Central Powers. Britain certainly intended no affront to the Japanese in this case, he said - no greater affront, in any event, than the Japanese had intended in boarding over 191 British ships in China seas since...
From U. S. publishers great and small, Editor Fitzgibbon last week had received some 500 letters asking him how offset worked. His answer: operating costs with linotype and offset presses (laboriously sheet-fed) are not more than 10% lower. But initial costs are cut too, may bring the total saving to 15%. So pleased with offset is James Fitzgibbon that he plans to look around for some more small towns without newspapers, try to develop a chain of offset dailies...
...Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer, a speedier solution (his trade secret) to replace Epsom salts as a reducing agent. With the new solution he could silver a mirror in 57 seconds, instead of over half an hour. Better still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could...