Word: tug-of-war
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...many-armed U.S. Government last week was engaged in a tug-of-war with itself over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...
...N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne, the breakup was the end of a dream to weld his loose confederation into a single, tight union at the Miami convention next month. It also meant the beginning of a jurisdictional tug-of-war between A.F.L. and C.I.O. for possession of N.F.T.W.'s seceding affiliates. For A.T. & T., the call that broke N.F.T.W. might well prove to be a wrong number...
...which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position as instructor at the Harvard Research Laboratory of Physics, his life has been a tug-of-war between Boolba the scientist and Boolba the artist. For reasons of a dietary nature (one must eat), the former eclipsed the latter--but only superficially. The "fire" still burns within, and with a little pursuasive fanning, one can readily be treated to a wisp of artistic smoke...
Simple solution to the political tug-of-war, says Colonel Knerr, is to give absolute authority to one man in each theater of war, have Congress establish a Department of National Defense...
...diplomatic tug-of-war between the U.S. and Germany for the favors of Vichy was so tough last week that worn old Marshal Petain must have felt that he was being torn limb from limb. For the moment, U.S. diplomacy seemed the stronger, but there was always the chance that Germany would abandon diplomacy for destruction...