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Word: dismemberment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its size, the Du Pont chain of command which Tom Clark wanted to dismember was simple. The Du Pont family controls the Christiana Securities Co. (TIME, Feb. 21), a holding company in which anyone can buy stock (current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

May his hair grow long in hell, said I; here's another "think piece." But I continued to read with an open mind. It didn't make much sense--in fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...which had almost gone broke fighting a pilots' strike, last week appeared before CAB to fight a move to dismember it. CAB thought its routes should be split up among other carriers. As the hearings got underway in Washington, National surprised CAB by proposing something like a dismemberment plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: On the Operating Table | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Early this month, 5,000 Reds had jammed Düsseldorf's Rheinhalle for an anniversary rally. Reimann, an able rab-blerouser, harangued them for 2½ hours. He denounced the Ruhr statute as a means to "dismember the heart of Germany and make dollar slaves of German workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Do Your Best, Max! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

The week's biggest news was Molotov's first specific statement on Germany's political future. He started, true to form, by denouncing the Western nations' plans for a federalized Germany as a "plot to dismember" the country. But there were signs that the Russians might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Not So Bad | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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