Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill curbed the temptation to plunge into tax cuts. The Senate even voted down, 71 to 14, a premature tax-cut measure urged by Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas (see Democrats). But Democratic chiefs in both Houses and Administration voices made it clear that tax cuts lay ahead unless March statistics showed unemployment shrinkage...
...other day I read an interview with a resort hotel operator who claimed he was feeling the effects of the recession. He turned down 500 reservations every weekend last year, he said, but now he is turning down only 400. It is meaningless to talk about recession unless we consider what the economy is receding from, and where it stands in relation to the past. At the present it is receding from the highest peak in our economic history; and even now it remains at a record high, compared to the level of previous years...
Technicians deployed their Geiger counters to check the level of radioactivity. Report: no danger. Reason: nuclear bombs have been painstakingly designed so that they cannot function unless they go through a complex arming process, and the Air Force is not likely to fly with armed nuclear bombs this side of the Iron Curtain or the Pole...
...Cologne. Two days later her uncle, Assad Bakhtiari, arrived from Teheran as an emissary of the 38-year-old Shah, held a three-hour bargaining session with Soraya and her parents in a carnation-filled embassy room dominated by a huge oil painting of the Shah. His reported offer: unless Soraya agreed to the Shah's taking a second wife who might provide him with a son, he would divorce her. To the second-wife plan, Soraya reportedly gave an "angry and disgusted" no. If the second wife bore a son, she would inevitably become "the" Queen, and Soraya...
...Million in the Chest. The union figured it could hold out a long time. It has a $33 million strike war chest, which, as Columnist Murray Kempton quipped, "is rather like the Chase Manhattan Bank going on strike." But management was hemmed in. Unless settlement came soon, the shops would be unable to start their summer-dress deliveries as planned on April i. and their fall showings would be late. Said Adolph Klein, spokesman for 32 high-priced fashion houses: "We just don't know if there will be a summer line if the strike lasts another week...