Word: bailiwicks
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Herbert Clark Hoover, fishing tripper, and the Duke of Windsor, his luncheon host in the Duke's Bahaman bailiwick, forthrightly, erectly double-breasted the news camera...
...London, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, questioned by Parliament about the U.S. entry into Britain's Middle Eastern bailiwick, would say no more than that consultation was necessary. British press comment on the U.S.-Arabian pipeline was notably nonexistent. And the U.S. press would have said much more if it could have found out anything...
Shark-mouthed Publisher Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...
...North Atlantic, did not sign. Pan Am fears the results of a wholesale postwar competitive scramble among U.S. airlines while foreign countries operate through a government-backed "chosen instrument." Export has said nothing. American is the first of the big lines to challenge the nonsigners in their own bailiwick...
...eight years K.L.M. has had a network centered around the oil-rich Dutch islands of Curaco and Aruba. Before the war, this 2,400-mile route from nowhere to nowhere was a minor part of K.L.M. 's 15,800-mile worldwide bailiwick - and K.L.M. had no U.S. license to fly between the Dutch Indies...