Word: entrenchments
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Never considered necessary in World War I, the state of siege raised suspicion among the Acting President's Radical (liberal) opposition that Ramon Castillo was using the war to entrench his Conservative clique more firmly in power. This suspicion was strengthened by Castillo's cancellation of a great pro-Ally mass meeting scheduled to be held in Luna Park. Sponsors, the pro-British Accion Argentina and Buenos Aires' most respected citizens, had expected that 50,000 people would turn out to cheer as U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour read a message from President Roosevelt...
...cause to agree with Hugh Johnson, who wrote last week of the labor situation that, while the general population and business are suffering from taxes and priorities, "organized labor . . . is not only required to give up nothing but is being permitted, if not encouraged, to use this crisis to entrench itself in a campaign of intimidation...
...tons more than they ever produced in a year. In thinking about new post-war markets, they see nothing but new post-war competition: from aluminum, with post-war capacity five times prewar; from enormously increased magnesium capacity; from substitutes (like plastics), encouraged by wartime shortages to entrench themselves in steel's peacetime markets. Last week (see p. 50), U.S. Rubber began invading aluminum, whose laboratories are already busy planning a huge post-war steel invasion...
...rational being. From these he derived a new program for U. S. Negroes: 1) cooperative action among Negro consumers, building toward industrial democracy, i.e., socialism; 2) recognition of the deep, irrational roots of race prejudice, demanding "on our part not only the patience to wait, but the power to entrench ourselves for a long siege...
...Viruses do not grow as independent molecules, but enter into a dynamic relationship with their hosts. For example, in certain rabbit tumors, the viruses entrench themselves in a group of cells. The animal's body may react by destroying the cells which harbor the virus. Once the host cells are destroyed, the tumors gradually disappear...