Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa Claus consisted of a group of eight major oil companies,* who offered to turn over to the Society, lock, stock & barrel, the rich Universal Oil Products Corp. Universal is a research firm which holds patents on oil processes that yield an annual income of $1,000,000. Universal's owners paid $22,000,000 for the company in 1931, have since used it to pool research and patents. Reason for giving it away (according to well-informed oil men) : the U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Universal as a possible trust, and to avoid a protracted struggle...
Bald, icy-eyed Columnist Strunsky is the kind of newspaperman about whom no hit play or best-selling novel is likely to be written. He has never picked a lovenest lock, swiped a picture from a new widow, or solved a murder. Born in Russia and schooled in New York City from P.S. 77 through Columbia, he went to work as an editor of the New International Encyclopedia in 1900, aged 21. After six years he shifted to editorial writing for the New York Post, became its editor in 1920, moved on to the Times...
London's defense was triple-decked, but most of its details were under strong censorship lock. The system goes to work almost at the instant of the robot bomb's launching. The course of each missile is plotted, its flight checked...
Newspaper Renaissance. Pro-democratic Argentine newspapers had been lock-jawed Charley McCarthys. Now, the Government announced, they were free to publish what they pleased. La Prensa, La Nation and other anti-Axis papers promptly printed the full text of Secretary Hull's angry statement, or made thorough summaries of it. They followed this up by -publishing columns of sharp editorial comment from London, Washington, New York and various Latin American capitals...
...rudder and elevators sometimes lock tight, sometimes flap violently, as if buffeted by Niagaran rapids...