Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idlewild, the LAV staff began preparing late snacks for the 64 passengers and the ten-man crew. Doubtless many of the travelers would grouse about the delay, but the prospects for cheerful shoulder-shrugging were better than average, because at least 25 were lively youngsters, the majority of them students at U.S. convents and prep schools, returning to Venezuela for their summer holidays. Twenty on board were Americans...
...Know Criminals." Anxious not to compromise Swiss neutrality, Judge Schwartz resolutely steered Beldeanu away from any discussion of the contents of the 464 documents that the band had turned over to the Swiss police, and which the police-after a day's delay-had dutifully returned to the legation. Otherwise, the court heard defense witnesses out with obvious fascination, and when the prosecution began to present its witnesses, their statements frequently sounded more like letters of reference than like hostile testimony. "I know criminals when I see them," declared the prison warden. "These men are no criminals...
Kelly has won a week's delay but the end seems certain: the new company will take over, start out with debts of some $112,000. Chicago desperately wants its opera, and it probably will get it again this fall, even if in somewhat tattered form...
...GERMANY'S DELAY IN MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS (gently but firmly): "Perhaps the fact is overlooked in the U.S. and other countries that in spite of the economic boom in the Federal Republic there are still millions of Germans who lack the basic requirements for normal existence. The aged pensioners with their dependents number 16 million, and there are the war wounded and the expellees [from the East]. These are heavy burdens which no other country has to bear. Therefore it is understandable that our public is not too pleased when it hears that greater amounts are asked for which there...
Opposition Tory and C.C.F. (Socialist) parties, which have been accusing the Liberal government of giving too much leeway to U.S. investors, reacted angrily to the proposal to lend tax funds to a U.S.-controlled firm. Both parties immediately launched a filibuster to delay the bill. The government's main reason for backing the U.S. firm is that Trans-Canada has pipe and equipment on hand to begin work immediately. A national election is expected next year, and the Canadian public, the Liberals believe, is more interested in seeing the long-stalled pipeline built than in worrying about the nationality...