Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...
Along with expanding trade, Trippe applauded recent Administration moves to encourage private U.S. investment in underdeveloped countries. One field of such development is aviation. "It is simple economics that a country cannot develop unless it has a proper transportation system . . . Today, however, many underdeveloped countries cannot wait for railroad and highway systems to be developed. Geographical or political conditions force them to skip these earlier stages and enter directly into the age of flight...
...that the statesmen have final authority, and generals were bound to consult them, but no cumbrous machinery of confining rules was laid down. After all, said Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "If an atomic bomb knocks out the telephone, I don't think we can wait for the service to be re-established before we make a decision...
...salt worried. Russia already has 30 cruisers to Britain's 26, said 81-year-old Lord Chatfield last week. Chatfield, who was Admiral Beatty's flag captain in the Battle of Jutland, warned the House of Lords: "It's the same old game-wait for the scientists. But if you wait for the scientists, you wait forever and never build anything...
Probation. In London, it was revealed that the late Financier Albert Ixiibin's 26-year-old daughter Valerie will have to wait until she is 50 before she gets her $56,000 inheritance, because Rubin's will stated: "No woman is capable of handling her own money until...