Word: compassing
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...Guildsmen on the pinko Daily Compass were accused of working in collusion with Editor & Publisher Ted Thackrey in the immediate economy firing of 13 employees, despite a Guild contract clause requiring 30 days' notice. ¶ Guildsmen on the Communist Daily Worker were charged with siding with management to keep the old pay scale ($71 minimum for reporters), while the Guild's local leaders were trying to raise Worker salaries in line with those on other Manhattan dailies...
...find a way to reach the new Seattle citizens, Rex Allison in 1946 ordered an aerial photographic map of the entire north end. He pored over the map with pencil and compass, soon found that a suburban branch located just outside the city limits would be within twelve minutes' driving time of 275,000 people who spend $500 million every year. Allison sold the idea to Allied Stores Corp. (owner of Bon Marche), then persuaded the Equitable Life Assurance Society to buy $6,000,000 worth of mortgages to help finance a super shopping center...
When Captain Bermudez and his crew sobered up enough to read their compass, they headed back to Spain. Upon arriving, however, it was discovered that the entire cargo (which had consisted of American dollars in bills of large denominations) had somehow disappeared. Bermudez was promptly executed which was a good thing because his head still pained him a great deal...
Roach muttered thickly. "I'm getting up." But it took two men to help get him back to his corner. The referee asked him the prize ring's compass question: where was he? "I'm all right," Roach insisted. "I'm in the St.Nicholas Arena...
...John Graham and a team of Carnegie geologists went to work. A series of rock samples 10 million to 100 million years old which they took from flat-lying strata in the western U.S. proved to have a magnetism pointing in about the same direction as present-day compass needles. The conclusion was that when the rocks were laid down as silt, the earth's magnetic field was about as it is today...