Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse thought they were-and should be-bound together. Said he: "I am going to vote for the pact enthusiastically, because I believe it carries along with it the . . . military implementation for stopping Joe Stalin in his tracks . . . Unless that is ... the meaning of the pact, it is already a museum piece for Stalin's repository of diplomatic scalps...
Three weeks ago the National Dock Labor Board (representing management and labor) refused to let the dockers go to work on any ship at all unless they unloaded the two Canadian ships. When troops were called in to take the place of the wildcat strikers, they stayed away from the two Canadian ships. Using troops to unload them would have settled the dispute, but the government knew what it was doing...
...Communications Commission last week announced that it "proposed" to add 42 UHF (ultra high frequency) channels to the existing twelve television channels. No one would explain exactly what this mysterious announcement meant, but it looked important. It could mean that all TV sets in use today will be obsolete unless they can be converted to the UHF band. It could also mean that color television, which works only on UHF, is just around the corner. Even so, the FCC moves so slowly and cautiously that something it "proposes" to do might take years...
Webster: I don't see how we're going to progress in this art unless the public buys receivers. If we put out something that says, "Do not buy anything now until you get UHF . . ." everything is going to stop...
...took 20 Ibs. per acre of old-style bait (bran and sawdust poisoned with arsenic) to control the hoppers. The newest bait (bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...