Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...Work. But getting out the guns at Colt has long been hamstrung by a 100-year-old handwork tradition. In trying to graft war production of 6,800 guns monthly onto peacetime artisan manufacture of 400 yearly, Colt fell into a fearful production tangle. Typical example: Colt numbered all barrels at the beginning of assembly, as they had always done, and would not test finished guns unless they came up in sequence. Result: when one gun was pulled out because of a faulty part, the whole test line stopped. Quipped one worker: "Production was like a Rube Goldberg cartoon-everyone...
...late '30s a change crept in. The dictator spoke of good dictatorship, "disciplined" democracy, constitutionality, economic reform. The cynical and the critical said that he talked big, did little to uplift Cuba's sugar-sick economy, uproot its age-old graft. But Batista began to curry civilian support. He encouraged opposition, pardoned political prisoners, even legalized the Communist Party. He cultivated culture. He took up smart squash-tennis (though he preferred cock-fighting), got a tailor, elbowed a way into Havana society, polished his pronunciation. He began to think of legitimizing his power...
...Lieut. Colonel G. H. McCaffrey: "The people in southern Italy . . . are definitely opposed to the Badoglio Government. . . . There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
Hungarians' Choice. About a week before, Czechoslovakia's Moscow-wise President Benes had suddenly observed out loud that in his opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...