Word: request
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Communications Commission request for public reactions to color TV. Some 5,000 questionnaires filled out by the viewers have been mostly critical raves, e.g., "This is it!", "I'm willing to write off my black & white set. . ." But one carper pleaded: "Please God, give us programs worth looking at, in color or black & white...
Though McCarthy's request has yet to be passed on by RFC, it brought up a thorny problem of Government policy: Should RFC make such loans? The New York World-Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does...
Another protest came from the U.S. Senate, where Arkansas' Democrat J. William Fulbright asked for a full-dress investigation of RFC loan policy. He wanted more details on McCarthy's $70 million request, as well as the facts behind such loans as $44 million to Kaiser-Frazer Corp.; $37.5 million to Lustron Corp. (see below); $12 million to Northwest Airlines; $6 million to Waltham Watch Co., and the Texmass loan...
...letter was in reply to a request for extension sent to the commission by Network President Bradford S. Doane...
...Boss Palmiro Togliatti delivered an oration: "A society which doesn't provide work for all its components is a cursed society. Cursed are those who hold reins of power in this cursed society. Cursed are those who reject with armed violence, with murder and massacre the humblest request a man can make: a request to work . . . These acts cry to God for vengeance...