Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule, had to cancel another 57 next day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all railroads with low coal supplies to cut steam-locomotive passenger runs by 25%. "By the end of this week or next," said a U.S. Government coal expert, "we will be in damn bad shape unless something gives...
...against unity of command and planning . . . Despite protestations to the contrary, I believe that the Navy has opposed unification from the beginning . . . This is no time," he went on sternly, "for 'fancy Dans' who won't hit the line with all they have on every play, unless they can call the signals ... I believe that the public hearing of the grievances of a few officers who will not accept the decisions of the authorities established by law . . . have done infinite harm to our national defense...
...happen to you?'. . . And we realized with a tremendous lifting of the burden that was within us that there was really nothing to fear. .. Even the poor peasant straightened his back a little . . . Fear was something we had created . . . We have lost all fear of external aggression . . . unless of course we ourselves go to pieces. Then it would be our fault...
...some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...
...Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...