Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Ohio. John Bricker was by no means dead and buried. Ready to run for the Senate next year, he was an almost certain winner unless Ohio's Governor Lausche, the Democrats' wonderboy, ran against him. One high-placed Republican who keeps his finger wetted to the political winds thought that if a G.O.P. presidential convention were held today, John Bricker would win, hands down...
...youngster pulled the wrong lever; it released a two-ton life raft which crashed to the deck below, miraculously injuring nobody else. But he lost a finger in the process...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...
...potent Elizalde interests, which have a finger in most Filipino enterprises, expect to start two ships plying between the Islands this month. The Philippine Airlines has been reorganized, with the help of 560,000 pesos from Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., in exchange for a 28% interest in the company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants...
Trusts Busted. The greatest of the zaibatsu, of course, is the 300-year-old feudal house of Mitsui. The U.S. has found that Mitsui has a financial finger in some 173 companies making everything from paper to airplanes. Mitsui was hard hit by bombs, losing 50% of its flour-milling capacity, 30% of its light-metals capacity, 40% of its chemicals and the bulk of its trading fleet...