Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...long-distance night-bombing tactics. He is doing it. ... The Nazis have 16,000 instructors now working on six-week courses in factories. We have got a couple of thousand. They have 200 training centres. We've got 40. ... They have really mobilized the whole area they control. Conscription is the honest word for mobilization and let's stop being mealymouthed. . . . We must have guns, machine guns, airplanes, ships, or else we shall have neither food nor clothing. . . . If the whole nation must go on soldiers' wages as well as soldiers' rations...
...There have been men of ill repute who . . . have succeeded, through stealth and armed force, in securing control of existing local unions . . . using the power they have acquired for il legal purposes. This is a most difficult evil to eradicate. It calls for the application of every means available...
...Chicago's airport the lights were glowing-white, red, green. Men on the ground saw Trip 21 break out of the overcast, her red and green navigation lights sharp against the ceiling. From the control-tower speaker came Captain Scott's businesslike voice: "Contact-1,500"; i.e., at 1,500 feet he was out of the clouds, could see the ground. The laggard wind had freshened to 9 m.p.h. and Phil Scott had radioed he would come in on the northwest runway. As he made his turn, baggage handlers began wheeling their carts down to the gate where...
...Farren's, the Park Hotel's Sky Terrace. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon's Tower Night Club had none of their old sparkle. Gangsters who had plundered weapons from dead soldiers on nearby battlefields turned Shanghai into a Little Sicily. With rice and coal under Japanese control, the bodies of starved Chinese were picked up in the streets by hundreds...
...Japanese had the white inhabitants of Shanghai in check, they still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching...