Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five to Lewis. First John Lewis thrust his bulky frame into the all-important executive committee. In league with the A.F. of L., he had the committee enlarged to 16 members, eight from industry, three from the C.I.O., three from the A.F. of L., one from the Mine Workers, one from the Railway Brotherhoods...
...last week the divisions trained and equipped by the C.C.C. were playing another role-one equally important to China's destiny. They were the spearheads thrust by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into North China and Manchuria to accept the Japanese surrender and to meet the military challenge of the Chinese Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). They may well become the decisive factor in their nation's civil...
Like many another newspaperman derricked out of his old job by the war, Jim Lucas had no desire to go back. He came home a lieutenant, surprised to find a flattering array of jobs thrust at him. He took the best one-roving columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance -and went at it like a marine. Last week his first column kicked up a fine fuss...
...foreign whalers had put all but two U.S. ships out of business. Harpooners, who reportedly have made as much as $125,000 a season, were so scarce in the U.S. that Norwegian killer ships had to be hired. Then Congress, prodded by the farm bloc, delivered the final thrust. In 1939 it slapped a 3?-a-pound tax on all oil from whales caught by foreign killer ships after the 33 floating factories of all nations had made their greatest kill ever: some 64,000 whales. Forced to quit, the two U.S. whalers were sold, one to Argentina, the other...
...seen and feared the conflict that brought him back to Washington five years ago. Sooner than most, he had learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...