Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles away. Some 10,000 Leftists holding the cup were in grave danger of being trapped as Franco forces, behind a punishing artillery barrage and air attack, rolled forward on both sides of the salient. After three days the Leftists backed out, allowed Franco to straighten his lines, which now parallel the vital inland Allepuz to Alcalá de Chivert highway, still in Leftist hands at week...
Anybody could have found him out by comparing his reports with the books at the mill, but nobody did. When, early this month, Homes & Davis accidentally heard what had been going on, they promptly discharged him. Very soon they asked him to come back for a while to straighten things out. Mr. Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could...
...been −−−−ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." Legend has it that these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United...
...Chinese bombers have appeared during daylight hours, although every Chinese soldier had been given to understand that Chiang Kai-shek's chief threat to Japan consisted in his air force. . . . What now? Japan has succeeded in plunging China into chaos which will take several years, perhaps decades, to straighten out. . . . With China's near collapse understood, neither Russia nor any other nation will feel desirous of giving China military assistance...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...