Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booze. In Kansas, after 50 years of Prohibition, there is not a town where I can not go as a stranger and get a very good drink in 15 minutes. No less than 6,000,000 gallons of hard liquor are consumed in Kansas annually. Detroit is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians. North Dakota consumes immeasurably more hard liquor than before Prohibition. There out of every four farmers one is making bootleg liquor for the other three. Drinking goes on in the vilest places in Minneapolis. There is not a decent speakeasy in the city but there...
While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...