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They finally got around to taking a poll of U.S. children. A representative panel of 10,000 kids, between the ages of 8 and 13, was quizzed for opinions on everything from "Your favorite part of dinner?" to "Should the U.S. go to war?" They answered right...
Although the old crate's instrument panel had been stripped clean, the two fliers by devious means got a compass and an altimeter. They rigged up an air speed indicator from the spring of a broken chair. Nazi sentries patrolled a quarter-mile away, but the fliers cycled out night after night to work on the plane. They got automobile gasoline and tried redistilling it themselves...
Answering You makes no pretense at giving extempore answers. BBC has gathered some of the best brains of Britain to serve on the show's permanent panel, and plenty of careful research goes into the program. Among the experts: Sir William Beveridge, Master of Oxford's University College; Historian Charles Kingsley Webster; Laborite Francis Williams; Birmingham University Economist Philip Sargant Florence. Also on tap are Government bigwigs such as Alfred Duff Cooper, who supplied for the first Answering You show an explanation for Britain's failure to bomb the Rumanian oil fields...
There the National Defense Mediation Board had stepped into a three-weeks-old dispute that was blocking production of lumber needed in defense building. The board, taking on a new function, had appointed itself a fact-finding commission, and a panel which included labor's own representation had made public recommendations for a settlement of wage demands and grievances. But delegates of the striking C.I.O. woodworkers rejected the board's formula. At week's end no trees fell in the forests of the Northwest...
...deadline was set by a conference of union executives and plant chairmen after hearing a report from their negotiation committee on nine days of conferences in Washington with company officials and a panel of the defense mediation board...