Word: footholds
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...instead to let Russia put up the steel mill. Russia, keen to show the Indians that it can match the Westerners in industrial know-how, offered to put up a $95 million mill in four years. Commerce Minister Krishnamachari objected that the Russian plant would give the Communists a foothold inside central India, permitting them to intrigue among Indians, to make sure that Indian Communists were made foremen, and to channel funds into the Indian Communist Party...
...promised to send Burma $20 million-a-year worth of machinery and goods for the next ten years, along with technicians, and to invest another $5,000,000 annually in such joint enterprises as power projects and factories. Thus out of the peace Japan stands to get a friendly foothold in the Burma market...
Pulling Tony out was another proposition. Near the top he caught on a bulge in the snow wall; he could reach no foothold. He was soaked and cold and tired. Once they got him almost high enough to touch his pack, but when dark came, the men on top gave up. Their strength was gone, and Tony still hung in the crevasse. All they could do was keep on talking. They heard Tony's last words-which no one remembers-some time near midnight...
Five Are Better Than One. Why had Hilton bought the Statler hotels? For one thing, says Hilton, "they're our kind of hotel, big and comfortable." The money-making chain also gives Hilton his first foothold in such important cities as Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Hartford, and Dallas. Furthermore, Hilton is a great believer in owning two or more hotels in one city (he now has five in Manhattan alone), feels he can cut costs drastically by combining facilities where Statler and Hilton hotels now compete...
Communism's strong foothold in Italy today, commented De Gasperi testily, grew largely out of "the Roosevelt climate" and Allied policy at the end of World War II. Last week, at the behest of the United Press correspondent in Rome, De Gasperi explained...