Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...manpower and the wrenching of the economy that would be necessary to meet the new crisis. The President spent most of the week conferring with Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee (see below). Their muted communiqué was the only authoritative word heard out of Washington in answer to the black headlines from the front...
Refusal. Next day, Alan Valentine got an answer to his first public move to scare industry into voluntary controls. He was soundingly slapped down. Ford's Henry Ford II had announced an average 5.5% price rise on 1951 models...
...anxious voices crying for an end to the inadequacies of the draft law, the clearest and most realistic answer came from the nation's educators. Such men as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and North Carolina's Gordon Gray had asked for two years' military service for all young men reaching the age of 18. The influential, 37-member Association of American Universities last week added its weight to the proposal...
...necessarily the answer the country would adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
...free world's desperate efforts to find a way out of the Korean crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky last week gave a candid and memorable answer. At Lake Success, Vishinsky had this to say of the weak six-power resolution (see below) which politely deplores Chinese Communist "intervention" in Korea...