Word: bailiwicks
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Adequate Incentive. Now, Al Browning hopes to perform another minor miracle in Wallace's bailiwick; he expects to make it the two-fisted champion of business in the Administration. He has promised to stay only three months, will probably stay longer if Wallace lives up to his promise to give him a free hand. What he hopes to drive home is that business must have "adequate incentive" to supply the jobs for full employment, i.e., taxes should be further reduced, plant amortization regulations liberalized, etc. He summed up his new job: "Our purpose is to stimulate, not just...
...conference in Havana. TWA and Pennroad bought out Yerex's contract as TACA president for about $100,000, half what he would have received in the eight years the contract still had to run. In return, Yerex agreed not to operate airlines in TACA's Latin American bailiwick for two years. He kept some $3,500,000 in TACA stock and a seat on the board of directors...
...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...