Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month of October, while much-publicized peace talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble...
...with Newton's old band, which also featured Vic Dickenson and Arthur Herbert. The group is still rough and the style is more jump than jazz, but nevertheless Fields' musical product is far more pleasing than the senile, sterile harmonics of nearly every other night club band in this bailiwick of the Irish and Beacon Hill Puritans...
...unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
...onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...
...Frazer. Detroit's automen smiled at this. Normally, it takes them 18 months to translate blueprints into a car. Nor were they worried by Kaiser's invasion of their bailiwick. Some of them already have their own West Coast assembly plants, all of them have a solid grip on the market. If Kaiser sells in the East, as he plans, he will be up against a $175 freight charge tacked to the price Of his car. Thus, old line automen may get their first competition not from the Kaiser but from the Frazer. Reason: the Frazer, which will...