Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...peculiar request highlighted a peculiar situation last week. Britain, France and the U.S. asked the Kremlin to let an international commission search Russia for missing German prisoners...
Next day, in as unobtrusive a fashion as he could, Harry Truman sent a request to Congress for $260 million more for atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. The request had been scheduled for ten days earlier, but the outbreak of war in Korea had postponed it: the President had feared that people might think a hydrogen bomb would be used in Korea. His gingerly caution was typical of the Administration's determination, while fighting to win in Korea, to let all provocative acts come from Russia...
...airlines, the wartime "bumping" rule was again invoked to give priority to military traffic. The Government placed seven U.S. overseas airlines on stand-by notice to ferry troops and materiel to the war zone. At the State and Commerce Departments' request, U.S. oil companies agreed to shut off completely the trickling flow of oil exports to the Far East...
When he was named chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, slightly more than two years ago, easygoing, friendly Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. explained candidly why he took the job: "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn't find any good reason for saying...
...hydroelectric project on the Rio Lempa, Salvadoreans agreed to raise another $5,006,000 themselves. To the government of tiny El Salvador (pop. 2,500,000), which had never tried it before, floating an internal loan looked like a precarious business. At its request, the World Bank sent in a bond-marketing expert, balding, energetic Norman M. Tucker...