Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortest games of recent history here the Varsity nine downed Rhode Island State 4-1 yesterday. Blazing the minutes away for an hour and three quarters, Tom Healey, set the visitors back on their heels with a fast one and superb control, while George Hines after a shaky start bent a rich assortment of curves over and under the home team bats...
Investigations of the radio industry and the FCC took a forward step during the week when the Senate Audit & Control Committee lifted Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr.'s all-inclusive broadcasting investigation demand out of storage by earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries...
Representative of a sparsely populated northwest Texas district, Congressman McFarlane has a great bitterness against power companies, the radio chains and the press. He has charged repeatedly in speeches that a broadcasting company has subjected him to censorship, charges further that NBC, CBS and MBS have monopolistic control of all clear broadcasting channels...
...Five experts-two pilots, a flight engineer, a steward, a stewardess-will control the DC-4, and they will have at their disposal every conceivable check on their own fallibilities. There will be, for instance, eleven independent radio transmitters and receivers, among them a teletypewriter to take weather reports. Auxiliary motor generators will make DC-4 sending sets just as powerful as control sets now in use at landing fields...
...again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...