Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time has come," said the New York State Board of Regents last week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
Most frequent request was for the sound of relatives' voices. Producer Leslie Bridgmont firmly said no. "If we start that," he explained, "we'll wind up with a string of elderly ladies quavering 'Hello, Frank...
...order was a direct slap at General Motors and Ford, which only a week before had turned down Valentine's request to suspend their price increases (TIME, Dec. 18). But it also affected Chrysler and Nash, which had raised prices last week...
...Henry Ford II asking them to suspend all price increases until he could talk things over with them. G.M. and Ford sent back like replies: they would be glad to meet with Valentine, but the boosts would stick. Said Wilson: "We find it impractical to accede to your sudden request . . ." Said Ford, in an obvious reference to the recent boost in steel prices, which Valentine had ignored: "We cannot accept out of hand proposals which appear to discriminate...