Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...
...Progress. The newest things in U.S. cars were unveiled this week. Nash had spent about $15 million in development work and retooling for its new "Airflyte" line. The new Nash silhouette is long, wide and low, with a racy air-scoop grille. A single "Uniscope" mounted on the steering column holds the speedometer and other gauges normally on the dashboard. The Nash owner can still sleep in his car, but the new beds can be made up (by lowering the bisected front-seat backrest) into either a single or double bed, without disturbing the rear trunk-compartment. The new Nash...
...just got through untangling the sophisticated calumnies of Mr. Raphaelson in Friday's CRIMSON. I would like to ask, in the first place, whether the column is primarily directed at the former president of the Free Enterprise Society personally, or whether it intimates that our society itself is made up of bigots or simpletons...
...purpose is to slur the persons of our membership, the column is unworthy of any notice. But if the calumny is intended to brand our organization with the stamp of reaction, perhaps the following comments are in order...
...Street brokers to lobby for their own interests in Washington, against the "radical" and "subversive" groups in the country. For Thomas, those two adjectives were firmly welded together. Later, he said the New Deal was in a "hand-in-glove" conspiracy with he Communist Party, and that "the fifth column in the United States has flourished under New Deal rule. In some respects it is synonymous with the New Deal...