Word: bailiwicks
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...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...
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...
...divisions to be awarded the designation Honorary. Over 70% of its men have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack division. HiD and the other divisions of the Sixth War Area (see map, p. 25) are the bailiwick of brilliant Chen Cheng, who is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general...
Fortnight ago, Quinn went to Washington to call on late Boss Bailie's good friend Henry Morgenthau. When he told him about his idea, Morgenthau decided it fell into SEC's bailiwick, called over Jerome Frank, who took along his stock-market regulator, Ganson Purcell, and his investment trust muckraker and regulator, cigar-rotating, handball-playing David Schenker. When Quinn laid the idea on the table, Frank quickly recognized it as one of his fondest...
...LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their bailiwick. Asked what he expected of the conference, the Little Flower of Manhattan snapped: "Results...