Word: straightener
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...counsel (the name of one of its presidents, Lyman J. Gage, * who was a failure around the turn of the century, has been expunged from its corporate history). It has had to test its advice in action. As controlling stockholder, it has had to step in to straighten out management problems, at times has found itself running an insurance company, a machinery maker, a food processor, a coal-mining firm, and a molasses company. To settle the estate of one wealthy New York lawyer, the bank merged three small cement companies he controlled, formed General Portland Cement Co., which...
...addition to men in uniform, Tirana swarms with plainclothes Sigurimi, Albania's secret police, whose "interrogation'' methods range from the use of poisonous snakes to an ingenious electric cage that shocks the prisoner when he tries to straighten up or sit down. According to a United Nations survey, 80,000 of Albania's 1,700,000 citizens were thrown into concentration camps between 1945 and 1956, and 16,000 died there. Last spring, a dozen Albanian army and navy officers were tried, in an improvised courtroom in Tirana's Partisan Cinema, as pro-Soviet conspirators...
Naturally, every foresighted bowling alley offers free lessons for children. In today's family-styled alley, parents no longer worry about evil companions, and the only childhood trauma is the gutter ball and a bad hook. And chances are that Mommy can straighten out these problems faster than Daddy...
...Administration is opposed to sending G.I.s to fight in the Vietnamese jungle (as is the Vietnamese government), nor does the U.S. have enough trained guerrilla fighters to do the job. In any case, reported Taylor, South Viet Nam needs six months of hard work just to straighten out the country before the U.S. should even seriously consider the question of sending in its own troops in force...
Presumably to show that it meant business, the military then ordered all leading politicians to straighten matters out expeditiously at a meeting in the presidential palace in Ankara; when Peasant-and-Nation Party Leader Osman Bolukbasi failed to show up, an armed party was sent to fetch...