Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oilfields exploitation on the Italian continent." With that, the last U.S. company in Italy stopped hunting oil on the mainland, leaving a clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some $10 million to find oil in the Po Valley...
...Clapp, 47, professor of Romance languages at Iowa's Grinnell College, these two math problems illustrate a disagreeable point. Both come from texts used in the sixth grade. But the first is from an American book, the second from a Swiss. Clapp's point: through their "stranglehold on education," U.S. educational theorists have so diluted the aca demic content of the public school that it now lags far behind those in Europe...
Abetted by the Southern propensity for returning Senators and Congressmen to Washington term after term (which gives the South a stranglehold on 34 different House and Senate committees in a Democratic Congress). Herman Talmadge is prepared to enjoy the privilege and power of Senate seniority for a long, long time. Predicts one Georgia political expert: "The man who will beat Herman is still a teen-ager...
...provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission would give him a stranglehold on the farmer. After better than thirty ballots, the adversaries succeeded in replacing Cummins with the progressive Republican Senator Smith...
...Almost as painful to NBC was the news that 1) the Colgate Variety Hour, unable to dent CBS's popular Ed Sullivan Show, had asked to be released from its NBC contract, and 2) NBC's Milton Berle (Tues. 8 p.m.) had his stranglehold on that hour broken for the first time when his rating dipped below that of his CBS opposition, Phil Silvers...