Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tide of war surged back across the Pacific and the Navy's theater overlapped into MacArthur's domain, there came the inevitable discovery: MacArthur and the Navy (as wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...
...Russians moved into Marshal Tito's domain after an agreement with the Partisans. Moscow announced that it was a temporary military expedient, was part of the Russian attack on Hungary...
...last year he had sold enough dip to buy the Saltees. He began planting 3,000 trees, developing his domain as a luxury tourist resort. He also talked about recruiting a private army...
...tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator Caraway's vote. In 1938, without Long, she squeezed by for her second elective term. By that time most...
...before: notably when he erred by some $32,000,000,000 in his gloomy foreboding that war would cut the U.S. standard of living 25%. And some of Cherne's "startling" facts are not so startling e.g., that one-fifth of the nation's land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last-chapter reversal. He concludes : "America will hit the shoals of unemployment and free itself. It will rub along the reefs of depression and then...