Word: albatross
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...them are quite true. Asia's contempt for Chiang is a fact, something the State Department must consider as it considers the fact of Communism itself. The loss of such valuable countries as India and Indonesia will be the reward of any administration which ignores it. Hanging the nationalist albatross around American necks is a sure way to start "third force" enthusiasts in Asia serenading Moscow...
...aluminum canoes and dinghies. To help pay the overhead, "Jake" Swirbul snared contracts to overhaul Navy planes and to service foreign airlines planes. For the civilian airplane market, Grumman's Widgeon amphibians were refitted for executive use, and Grumman began making its fast, versatile Mallards and the Albatross, an air-sea rescue plane. Swirbul's tactics succeeded in keeping the company narrowly in the black. By 1948 Chairman...
...Chiang Kai-shek's troops. Employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East, would be the worst blunder conceivable. Not only would it smack of overweaning meddling, but it would burden the United States with the worst sort of albatross, and demolish this country as a force in Asia for years to come...
Nothing makes U.S. admen wince more than the huckster label which Adman-Novelist Frederic Wakeman hung on them like an albatross six years ago. Even Tide, an advertising trade paper, has often used the term. But in a recent editorial, Tide said it was doing its best to strike the offending word from its copy, sermonized that admen should help banish the term by not acting like hucksters...
Arnall himself came forward with a suggestion for transferring the albatross. He strode in to see Harry Truman, suggested that the President call Congress back into session to strengthen price controls. The President could call on Congress to reverse the "crippling amendments" adopted last spring with Republican support. Truman, who knows how to get votes out of a can of peas, promptly announced that he was "considering" such a call. That brought the inflation issue from the household arts and financial pages to Page...