Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week Kaiser went back to his West Coast bailiwick with something more important than a half-won victory over the brass hats. He had set the nation's imagination on fire; even in stolid Washington the flames crackled and spread...
...will take charge of official news disseminated overseas, except in Central & South America (Nelson Rockefeller's bailiwick...
...most tempting target for air attack in Jarman's bailiwick is, of course, New York City. To defend it in its entirety, Jarman would have to divide the city into 6,000-yd. squares, place an anti-aircraft battery at the corner of each square. But in case of a raid, he will be quite happy if he can protect power plants, aircraft factories, docks and shipyards...
Girdler is not new to aircraft production in general, or to Vultee in particular. Long before he made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt and the C.I.O. he had made up his mind that light metals were the metals of the future, especially in steel's ancient bailiwick, transportation. Republic has for years pioneered in light steels...
While the Russians staked out their bailiwick in the north, the British did beautifully for themselves in the south. Oil had been smelled, and in 1901 for $20,000 bleak-brained Shah Muzaffar-ed-Din gave an English financial adventurer named William Knox D'Arcy a 60-year monopoly to explore and exploit all Persia for petroleum except the five northern provinces in the Russian stakeout...