Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final decision as to suspension should not be delegated below the Assistant Secretary level ... A personal interview with the employee prior to suspension is helpful in most instances...
Last week there was the danger that France might delay the line's inauguration, arguing that it could not let Germans fly over the country prior to restoration of German sovereignty. But Lufthansa, with the U.S. and British authorities already on its side, counted on winning over the French as well. On April 1, said Lufthansa confidently, it would begin scheduled commercial flights inside West Germany, soon to be followed by regular flights to continental points, Britain and New York. Not long after, Lufthansa expects to be making four flights weekly to New York, two to Buenos Aires, three...
...gasmen, who are against control, got some potent help last week from a special commission appointed by President Eisenhower to study U.S. resources and power policy. Said the commission: "We believe the Federal Government should not control the production, gathering, processing or sale of natural gas prior to its entry (into an interstate transmission line." The U.S. Supreme Court, on the other hand, ruled in favor of federal control the Phillips Petroleum case last June (TIME, June 21). The court's argument was that controls in the field reduce prices to consumers. Though the producers may operate only within...
...Prior Art. In Delta, Colo., a month after he sawed a hole in his cell door and escaped from the county jail, Harley Carringer, 24, was recaptured and put in the same cell, used the 50-lb. ball chained to his leg to knock off the new steel plate welded to the door, used the plate to break his heavy chains, escaped again by the same route...
Malcolm Bersohn '43, who for the three years prior to his arrest in 1951 had been studying at the Peiping Union Medical College, declared on his arrival in Hong Kong that he was "full of shame and remorse for his crime against the Communist people...