Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troop-entertaining mission. The amount of damages that Miss Froman could collect from the airline was limited to $9,050 (including lost baggage) under the Warsaw Convention of 1929, an international treaty imposing a ceiling of $8,300 on allowable damages for physical injuries suffered in international flights unless the claimant can prove willful misconduct. By thus voting public funds to correct the restriction of a U.S. citizen's rights by treaty, the House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted...
...take up Britain's "armed aggression" in Oman, and Moscow joined in with a fevered blast against Britain's "inhuman methods of warfare against the peaceful population of Oman." Sir Harold Caccia, Britain's ambassador to Washington, called on John Foster Dulles to warn him that unless the U.S. supported Britain on Oman, it would be "almost as much a blow as Suez...
...James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said the broadcast, is "completely unacceptable to the Chinese people"-unless. The unless: U.S. agreement to invite Chinese Communist correspondents on a reciprocal basis...
Banker Land figures that the population boom will not boost general prosperity unless there is an "accompanying increase in real income and real productive capacity per person." And there is less chance for this now because "children and old people account for most of the expansion in our population. Consequently, the working force must run faster in order to stand still...
...program against poliomyelitis is a dismal flop. With this year's number of polio cases (2,700 so far) reported mounting rapidly toward what might well prove to be the highest figures ever, vaccinations were hopelessly behind schedule. There was no chance that the program could catch up unless it got a shot in the arm with massive imports of U.S. vaccine - and these the Ministry of Health flatly refused to consider...