Word: charter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot, captain Ted Spencer, had just written a letter to a friend about recent European plane crashes. "Almost 100% of these crashes are on scheduled runs. Why? Because they must run-or at -least they think so. The charter services delay if necessary, and get a bad name-from the public for delays. But they appear to avoid these crashes (touch wood!). . . ." Spencer's wood was inefficacious. When he was killed he was flying a charter party, not a scheduled airline run.* Princess Sibylle...
...wheel, the company's gross had risen from $125,000 a year to $8,000,000. In the last year, Eugene has taken things easy. He has let Ed, president since 1937, take over completely the operation of Moran's 31 tugs. It also has eight under charter, and operates twelve 194-ft. ocean-going tugs for the Government. It has contracts to dock most of the big liners, including the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...
...unmindful of the weakness of U.N.: "The excessive use of the veto . . . can reduce the whole system to a mockery." He posed as a test of international good faith this proposition: let "all the Great Powers voluntarily join in a new procedural interpretation of the Charter, to exempt all phases of pacific settlements from [this] stultifying checkmate...
...Senator expressed his hope that the new Nanking charter would weld China together. Said he: "It is my own view that our Far Eastern policy might well now shift its emphasis. While still recommending unity, it might well encourage those who have so heroically set their feet upon this road, and discourage those who make the road precarious...
...would not be as vexing to the more conscientious of America's foreign policy shapers did not the UN Charter specifically list as one of the three types of trusteeship territories: "Territorities which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the second World War." (Article 77). Another source of annoyance was the action of old-time imperialist nations, such as England, France and Belgium, along with Australia and New Zealand in giving to the authority of the Trusteeship Council former mandate territories (another group specifically mentioned in the Charter as potential trustee lands) with a total area...