Word: viscount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viscount Hailsham, Tory leader in the House of Lords and sometime (1929) president of the Oxford Union, sternly denounced this sort of "government by undergraduate resolution," compared it to the pacifist days of 1933 when the Union overwhelmingly voted that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
...Britain's Tory government has stood firm in the face of Labor's blasts. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan continues to insist that there would be no point to summit talks without "a hope of definite achievement." Viscount Hailsham, chairman of the Tory Party, was equally unenthusiastic about suspending British H-bomb tests so long as the Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front...
Reduced Thoroughfare. In Alhambra, Calif., homeowners in a growing subdivision-expecting the name 'Viscount" for their new street-complained when signs reading "Discount Street" were...
CAPITAL AIRLINES will get special deal from General Dynamics Corp. to buy Convair jet airliners. Deal is for 15 Convair 880 jets worth $60 million, which G.D. will help finance in addition to helping Capital refinance some $48.5 million still owed on its current fleet of British-built Vickers Viscount turboprops...
DEBT MORATORIUM has been declared by British creditors of low-flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...