Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubted that closer control of nonscheduled flying was needed. But too drastic control would almost certainly choke off new competition altogether. Nonscheduled carriers grumbled that the CAB was killing a vigorous young industry in order to protect the monopoly of the established lines. Snapped Sigfried Samuelsson, executive vice president of their trade body, the Institute of Air Transportation: this is "extermination rather than regulation...
Garfield and Turner have done as much for this hodge-podge as any two mis-cast screensters can accomplish in one film. "Postman," if it hadn't been so thoroughly "improved" between story and script, would have come closer to acclaim as a first-rate movie...
Like the big bass drum at the end of a parade, the nation's first amalgamation of maritime unions boomed closer to its first strike day, June...
...never get together if you sit that far apart," he said. "You've got to sit closer and hold hands." Both preserved a stony silence. "You're young and good looking," Giese went on, "and I think you're still in love. Now I been married 26 years and I've got three kids. Sure my wife and I have spats. But one of us always remembers my wife's favorite answer: 'the smartest one always gives up first...
...failed to give the U.S. full information on its foreign economic agreements (especially with Russia). Devastated Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS) was willing to dig into her own depleted pockets to buy neighborly good will. Stanislaw Szwalbe, Poland's First Vice President, spelled out the Polish-Russian maneuver: "Closer cooperation with Russia becomes the more important ... in connection with the difficulties in establishing economic relations with the Anglo-Saxon countries...