Word: stranglehold
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...natural for a man with J. Arthur Rank's wealth and financial acumen. Until he descended upon the British cinema industry, this setup had also been a natural for the big U.S. producers, who made almost all the good pictures anyway. The U.S. had maintained a stranglehold on the British market with out difficulty, despite British Government attempts to keep some of it in local hands...
...airmail contracts in the U.S.. embittered by perplexing fights over routes, makes chastening reading for Americans. A few people-Elmer Faucett of Compaňia de Aviación Faucett and Hugh Wells of Cóndor Peruana de Aviación-challenged the European combines. The German stranglehold was broken when Axis airlines were nationalized by Latin American governments in the past two years. And now, says Aviation Assistant Burden, in cautious language: "The airplane promises to give Latin America a semblance of physical unity by overcoming the formidable geographical barriers which have divided it from time immemorial...
...imposition on India. It is not at India's request or consent that they are here. It is enough irritation that we were not consulted before being dragged into war-that is our original complaint-but to have brought American forces here is to tighten the stranglehold on us. I am not prejudiced against Americans and my thousands of friends in America, but it is my point that all these things are not happening at the invitation of India...
...misfortunes suffered by the heavy Jayvees, which bowed to Penn, and the Varsity lightweights, who were four feet behind Princeton and two behind Penn, indicate that Harvard's stranglehold on Eastern rowing is slipping, if only a little...
...morale and the confusion with which France entered World War II, Lazareff traced to false reporting, kept publishers, and the press service stranglehold of Agence Havas. Subsidized by every government in power, Havas crushed competition between newspapers, killed legitimate news stories, forced editors to print tainted propaganda as news. "Of all the poisons which have exerted their influence on French public opinion, the Agence Havas was surely the most virulent," Lazareff claimed. As one of Europe's best-informed editors, Lazareff spoke with authority...