Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulletin, always known for small type and small starting salaries, is no stranger to bigness-it has the biggest presses in the U.S., biggest home delivery, some of the biggest executive salaries in the business. But the editorial Big Stick is still a stranger to the biggest evening newspaper...
...fought a slow retreat; labor has methodically exhausted every lower authority to make its case correct; WLB is in no hurry. The barrage began with Phil Murray, in a quiet, dark blue suit, saying quietly: "I do not come before the Board for the purpose of wielding a stick or threatening a strike. I don't want any commotion . . . to arise out of these discussions that might precipitate a disruption of production...
...German military document captured in North Africa read: "For the reconnaissance, as indeed for every desert reconnaissance, only captured Canadian trucks are to be employed since German trucks stick in the sand too often...
...Eastman was appointed ODT head over the opposition of critics who held that the depression-blighted railroads were unprepared for war.* They wanted Government control backed with a big stick, and Eastman, they protested, was no big-stick man. But Eastman dumbfounded his critics. He successfully carried an ever-increasing burden without faltering-and so did the railroads...
Drastic Neighbor. This policy was successful during the period of U.S. "big-stick" intervention in Latin American affairs. But the Good Neighbor Policy was a setback. Argentinians watched "one republic after another being won over to Washington by the simple device of a Pan American policy founded on sincerity. . . . It was plain to the makers of Argentinian diplomacy that a drastic move was imperative. . . .They went in search of an issue and Washington gave them an unexpected one: the growing danger of fascism...