Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain faces the dangerous possibility of a new fratricidal conflict as well as world isolation. . . . The only instrument capable of avoiding both threats and bring ing about a reconciliation of all Spaniards . . . is Spain's traditional monarchy...
...place of competition Jimmie Forrestal advocated a monopolistic chosen instrument. Congress, said he, should require all U.S. companies engaged in international communications to merge into one big government-backed corporation...
...over the new Government in Bucharest (TIME, March 19). But London and Washington clearly did not intend to let the Rumanian issue make or break Big Three relations. One reason was that neither Britain nor the U.S. had any practical alternative to offer. Premier Peter Groza and his Communist instrument, the National Democratic Front, had undoubtedly been raised to power by Moscow for Moscow's purposes. The ousted premier, General Nicolai Radescu, undoubtedly had good reason to seek haven in the British Legation, where he prudently remained last week. But critical British and U.S. diplomats had to admit that...
...carefully prepared White Paper, Tory Minister Swinton let it be clearly understood that Britain will not limp into international postwar air competition with one monopolistic chosen instrument (British Overseas Airways Corp.); it will enter the postwar international air race with three. The new chosen...
...Washington, big, rich Pan American Airways again agitated for U.S. adoption of a united front, or a "chosen instrument" policy. Stoutly seconding this move was United Airlines...