Word: warne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MICHIGAN TAX HASSLE, which caused General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice to warn that automakers may locate new plants out of state to avoid high corporate taxes, is also affecting contracts awarded by armed forces. Army gave $119 million tank contract to Chrysler, but told automaker to fill order at its Delaware plant because using Detroit facilities would pad bill by $300,000 Michigan tax, plus $1,579,000 in other costs...
...Foreign Relations Committee, thought that Britain had simply acted because she was weary of waiting for the U.S. to change its "sterile" China policy. Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, unyielding foe of Peking and long twitted as the ''Senator from Formosa," rose on the Senate floor to warn that the British trade might "some day in the not too distant future strengthen Communist China to the point where it can feel it dares to take the risk of taking over the crown colony of Hong Kong. This is a calculated risk for which Her Majesty's ministers...
...want to warn the capitalist countries, do not joke with us, do not try to test us like you did in Hungary with the putsch. You think of doing it, not only in Hungary, but also maybe in East Germany. Be careful. We are not saints and if necessary we will rap your knuckles...
...streaked into the desert bearing Iranian government offers of $65,000 for her safe return. Military escorts were ordered for all American vehicles in the area, and more than 1,000 soldiers and gendarmes were deployed to comb the bandit haunts. U.S. and Iranian planes crisscrossed the desert to warn the bandits the hunt was on and to give hope to Mrs. Carroll if she was still alive...
...show did not take place in a cellar with the lights turned out. Nobody ate matches, meowed or loudly counted the pearls of visiting dowagers. No Dadaist proclaimed to the public: "Before going down among you to pull out your decaying teeth, before shellacking you with passion, we warn you: we are murderers." There weren't even any fights...