Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Communist troops swarmed along the north bank of the Yangtze. But there were no concentrations for a drive across the river. Were the Reds actually honoring their promise not to resume military operations until attempts to make peace had been exhausted? Or were they regrouping for a knockout smash? No one on the bewildered south side of the Yangtze was quite sure...
...Senate, the Administration's attempt to give the Taft-Hartley Act a swift knockout collapsed. The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...
...Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s $10 million underwriting fiasco (TIME, May 24), Eaton had tried to slow up SEC by ridiculing, cajoling, pleading and threatening, had finally gone into a clinch with a legal gimmick involving lawyer-client privilege. Last week SEC decided to try for a knockout. It ordered a hearing next month to decide whether Eaton's Otis & Co. should be allowed to stay in business...
...Fontana steel plant, thought he saw a way to pay off the debt: he hiked his prices an average of $30 a ton (on top of the $9-plus increase which he and other steelmakers had just posted). Kenneth Norris, chairman of the Western States Council, .called it "a knockout blow ... by the man who talked so loud about what he was going to do to build Western industry...
...most durable foes in the ring with him at the same time. But Joe had trained for this bout by persistently pleading with the men in the ships to get rid of the Commies once & for all. When the votes were counted this week, tattooed Joe had a triple knockout. Badly beaten were Vice President Howard McKenzie and onetime Vice President Frederick ("Blackie") Myers, both Communists; and Ferdinand Christopher Smith, national secretary, a Jamaican Negro whom the Government is trying to deport as a Communist (TIME, Feb. 23). Joe's slate also ousted all left-wingers from the union...