Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his backlog threatening to choke the fast-growing company, tall, straight-lipped Vultee President Richard W. Millar needed new capacity fast. Stinson has the advantage of a supermodern plant, situated in the Defense Area, hemmed in by the high Cumberland Mountains, supplied with cheap TVA power. It adjoins Nashville's huge new Berry Field, with ample runway room for test takeoffs. The average flying weather is better in Tennessee than most other sections. With Tennessee's plentiful labor, Vultee could figure on boosting employment at Nashville from Stinson's present 725 to 7,000 or more...
With each side holding one of the entrances to the Red Sea, the two adversaries were like men each of whom has a tight grasp on the other's windpipe. The question was largely which one could first choke the other and break his grip before he himself was strangled...
Peace Coup? Under Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, China has superabundant morale for resistance, but determination will not ground enemy airplanes or choke rifles. So strong, however, is the determination of the present Chungking Government that even if Japan cuts off most of China's supplies, their capitulation is improbable. What is perhaps more possible, certainly what the Japanese hope for, is some sort of coup within Chungking -some violent episode of treachery like the famous Sian kidnapping of Chiang...
...craft unions were protected against rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of industrial unions. Howard Smith also kept most of what he wanted: permission for employers to talk (but not act) against unions; a new board, reduced in power and tied up in enough strings to choke it well-nigh to death. All that Green & Co. had to do now was to get the amendments through the Senate and past President Roosevelt...