Word: grip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret is General Arnold's dislike of Pan Am's peacetime monopoly. When ATC was set up, he gave domestic U.S. airlines (with little international experience) the lion's share. Thus General Arnold has already built up the weapon to smash Pan Am's grip on world routes...
...Washington, smooth-working Marvin Jones went through his first week as Food Administrator without saying a public word, quietly tried to get a grip on himself and the tangled food problem...
China's Balance Sheet. With characteristic courage, China has surmounted the past year's difficulties: two terrible famines that swept Honan and Kwangtung, a price level now 87 times the pre-war level, the throttling grip of the blockade, the hunger of vast armies for medicines and munitions, the creeping paralysis of transport. The only major Japanese military drive this year-the campaign in western Hupeh-has been smashed. The Chinese Air Force has taken the air for the first time in several years, shot down enemy planes, cooperated with the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force...
...palm swift glues the nest with saliva to the side of a palm frond; then glues the eggs to the nest. To hatch the eggs, the parent birds (taking turns) grip the back of the nest with their feet, nestle themselves against the eggs. When the young hatch, their parents help them to hold their perilous perch until they are ready...
Left, Right. But the depression called for different tactics. Lewis dreamed not just of one big union, but of one big Labor party. To get it, as well as to keep his grip on coal, he needed to organize steel and the mass-production industries. He wanted to promote "industrial democracy." He wanted a vast union, with low dues, with a vote for every worker...