Word: delay
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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...
...Valtin") Krebs, ex-Communist bravo whose bloody Out of the Night was a prewar bestseller, got his U.S. citizenship papers. In San Francisco, best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang's 14-year-old daughter, Yu Hua, got into the U.S. on a visitor's permit-after a slight delay. The local immigration man claimed he had a "confidential" tip that she intended to stay for good, kept her aboard ship for two days & nights, finally took a chance...
...Even a conquered nation has the undeniable right to be represented at the peace table. The opportunity should be given to the German people without delay to establish a central body which shall be entitled to negotiate in the name of the German people. This body should also be entitled to negotiate with the governments of the neighboring countries on all matters commonly concerning these nations and Germany...
From Sonators of both parties and former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles came support of the plea voiced last night at Cleveland by the New Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that this government cease to "dictate" delay by objections to Argentina's Peron regime...
...gates are being kept open as a precautionary measure, Alvin R. Randall director of the University police force said yesterday. In the event of a heavy snow followed by a freeze, the gates, if closed, would be immobilized, prohibiting deliveries and causing delay...