Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel's Harry Moses. Eaton, director of the coal-carrying C. & 0. railroad, wanted to get the coal moving again. He was also vehemently sure that if the strike was strung out and coal shipments were completely stopped, European nations would be thrown into the lap of Communism. There was at least some basis for Eaton's international fears. All the world watched. In cold & hungry Asia, in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Saigon and Singapore, among the hopeless of Europe and the always hopeful of the British Isles the coal strike was front-page news...
...recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were the forces that Molotov's visiting envoys had at their beck...
...Clark. If Tom Clark had held up the sale with the idea of the Government operating the lines till the coal strike was over, he gave no hint. With all the lobbying going on, he might only have intended to toss the hot potato into the new Congress' lap...
Australia's pride was Bernborough, a six-year-old stallion that was being talked about the way the Aussies once talked about Phar Lap. Bernborough, who stands a whopping 17 hands high, won 15 straight races in Australia before he finally was beaten...
...popularity Hit Parade, one R.&R. executive said: "We have not had more trouble than you would expect from an exacting client." An underling at F.C.&B. was blunter. Asked if it was true that the $3,000,000 plum had indeed dropped into F.C.&B.'s lap, the employe sighed: '"Yes, too true...