Word: licking
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...Henderson's ability to lick inflation by this piecemeal method has nothing to do with his partial power over prices. For Henderson is also the administrator of civilian supply, with complete power over rationing. Without a Gestapo no price ceiling is effective on scarce materials whose supply is uncontrolled; and when the supply is controlled-i.e., rationed-the price ceiling enforces itself. Thereafter, as both Britain and Canada know, control of inflation is a Treasury matter: more taxes, more savings...
...taken a back seat when Lewis was president. John L. Lewis kept a glowering silence. If he had thought Murray was a pushover, he had been wrong. Said Phil Murray, looking more like a strong boy of labor: "This man Lewis never saw the day when he could lick...
...reform that turned out most of the Long gang, rolled "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones into the Governorship in 1940, did not touch Bob Maestri. Instead, it got rid of his rivals for Huey's power. Most of the disgruntled Longsters who teamed with Sam Jones to lick Huey's brother Earl are now in Maestri's camp. It looks as if Reform has about run its brief cycle in Louisiana...
...notes from the Dean's office hadn't and the U.T. hadn't. Things would go on, he reflected; we'd just have to put on a little more pressure. What was it Sir Francis Drake had said--something like "We'll have our milkshake at Dirty's and lick the Japs...
Army officers-bets he made on the durability of the Russian war machine. For, ever since his Moscow mission, Joe Davies has been one of the few U.S. citizens who has insisted that Russia would be hard, if not impossible, to lick...