Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the Dutch had won control of most of the Indies. Last week, with an amphibious stroke, they chopped big Sumatra in two, seized oilfields and rich rubber and coffee plantations. Republicans still held south central Java. With all major Javanese ports in Dutch hands it was an isolated stronghold...
...Restrictive labor union practices? Partially, but Fortune magazine's survey of the Chicago area, the stronghold of the building trade unions, concluded that only three percent of the cost of a new house was chargeable to "make-work rules." Unscrupulous contractors? Again a partial answer, but contractors are paying about 100 percent more for their materials than they consider a fair price, and even the best of them have difficulty in building a decent house that sells for less than $10,000. And the people who need houses haven't got that kind of money...
...great sacrifice to her war-crippled economy, amounted to less than a third of what Argentina bought from the U.S. Buenos Aires' famed British colony had shrunk to 8,000. Last February's sale of British-owned railways had wiped out the most powerful British business stronghold in the Western Hemisphere...
Britain, I am sure, has little if any "fat in the fire" where Greece is concerned, and with pressure being applied at home and abroad would probably thankfully withdraw all her troops and services but for the threat of an ever-expanding Russia in this last stronghold of Western culture and Western-type democracy ... in the Balkan nations...
Disaster to the tune of 54 to 21 marked the first leg of the weekend double-header scheduled for Coach Hall Ulen's swimmers last night, as they succumbed to a Rutgers powerhouse in the opponent's stronghold, taking only two first places...