Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Iran got another new Premier and cabinet. Premier Ali Razmara has a reputation for honesty and selfless service rare among Iranian politicos. As chief of staff for the last five years, he got along on three hours' sleep a night, worked from 5 a.m. till late at night, snapping his wiry body about with energy enough to whip new nerve and discipline into Iran's army...
...heels of the Korean outbreak, a scary rumor ran through the Midwest: the giant International Harvester Co. was switching to war production. A Kansas dealer said he had it straight from the home office, and helpfully passed the news on to a reporter. Not till after the story was printed did the facts come out: Harvester had signed a contract for some Army trucks, all right. But the order had been forthcoming for months...
Last week the note fell due. Since the party till was empty, and its boss short of cash, the government bank attached 200 of the most valuable books in Lombardo's library...
Norfolk Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...
Case Closed. In Painesville, Ohio, Policeman Leon Debolt investigated a girl's tearful complaint against her father, wrote his report on the case: "Daughter, 15 years old, stayed out till 3 a.m. Got paddled. Needed...