Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Counter-Leaks. The Secretary neglected his usual polite greeting when he faced the press, bluntly began: "I am having this conference . . . at the request and at the direction of the President." The precipitate performance on the Formosa question, as he explained it, had been necessary because "this subject has become one of the foremost subjects of discussion throughout the country . . . We have had leak and counter-leak, gossip and counter-gossip . . . and therefore it was the President's desire to clarify the situation...
Recently, a Chicago commercial photographer received a written request from a Latin American advertising agency for a photograph of a certain model. She should correspond, the agency explained, to a phrase in TIME which said: "She just makes you feel thirty." After some research the photographer found that the phrase referred to Louise Hyde, who was mentioned in TIME'S cover story on Model Lisa Fonssagrives (Sept. 19, 1949). However, TIME had quoted Miss Hyde's television sponsor, a soft drink manufacturer, as having characterized her as "the girl who makes you feel thirsty...
...programs. Many appliance sellers threw in $40 worth of frozen meat with every freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane ride with every $50 purchase. In Denver, a used-car dealer gave every purchaser a second car for i?. House builders, who had yawned at any request for a house under $20,000, hustled to turn them out at less than $15,000. And as buyers depleted stocks, production was forced up again with a rush...
December. In Los Angeles, as an added service to a lubrication job, Mechanic J. H. Fisher removed a squeak from a car door, put it back next day at the owner's request, because it had "sentimental memories...
...last week received a friendly letter from former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew. Grew wanted Romulo to sponsor a new university in Japan. In his reply, Romulo pointed out that hundreds of Philippine schools are still in ruins made by the Japanese invaders, declined Grew's request. A few days earlier, Romulo had told a story to newsmen which threw a sharp light on his refusal. The incident, Romulo had explained, was one of his most vivid memories...