Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tight a little tyranny as ever flourished in the Caribbean is beige-colored Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina's in the Dominican Republic. Behind the superb 16th Century bastions of Santo Domingo, where once Christopher Columbus was jailed, there are now few political prisoners because they are all dead or in exile.* When the U.S. Marines left the republic peaceful and subdued in 1924, young (31) Trujillo had come up from dubious beginnings to become a Marine informer, then a captain in the National Guard modeled on the Marines. By 1930 he was Chief of the Army and ready...
...north. For more than an hour Pilot Harvey Bolton cruised over Missouri, his radio transmitter dead, looking for a "hole" in the thick fog. His fuel was almost gone when, about 4 a.m., Pilot Bolton roused his eleven passengers with a shout of "Buckle your belts tight!" and nosed down for a blind landing...
...More than a coincidence is the fact that International Harvester's active head has always been a Scotsman. Its managerial traditions are tight-lipped accounting and long-headed efficiency. Its annual report usually concludes with a tribute to the "zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After the sons and grandsons of the late great Cyrus Hall McCormick began to lavish their energies on personal affairs, Alexander Legge took command. When Mr. Legge died in 1933, right at hand was a faithful first vice president whose sober Scotch virtues had raised him from the stock room-Addis Emmet...
Tosh is the popular impression that France has protected herself with a tight-drawn "chain" of steel fortresses against German attack Actually the $150,000,000 worth of steel and concrete forts are "fence-posts," not a chain. This week a horde of French and Moroccan troops is stringing the fence between the posts digging trenches from fort to fort, stringing barbed wire, testing sirens which at the approach of Germans, would scream so loudly that French villagers could hear them for a distance of seven miles and start to evacuate...
...think about by going down to the terminus of Abyssinia's French-owned railway* and taking delivery of what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor...