Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture has no material effect on the thrips. Mr. Friedenberg suggested that university courses in scientific journalism would work on the side of prose v. jargon...
...which are different, the number of possible molecular arrangements is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Young Dr. White made the point that the mystery of protein structure must be cleared up before scientists can understand how the hormones exert their obscure, powerful control on living processes. The chemists applauded his paper heartily and he was awarded the $1,000 Eli Lilly & Co. prize for meritorious biochemical research...
...Bergen Evening Record came to grief for running, in its "Voice of the People Forum," a letter attacking Jesus Christ, suggesting that he was the illegitimate son of Mary and a Roman soldier. The other publications, America thought, misled their readers on the Spanish war (three citations), birth control, ecclesiastical control in the Middle Ages, Fascism in Quebec, Catholic views on Mexico, the Church's oldtime attitude toward taking baths...
Basement of this railroad empire is Chesapeake & Ohio, which made $34,500,000 in 1937. From the penthouse Robert Young has held control of this prize possession through ownership of 46% of the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of all. In between Alleghany and C. & O. is another holding company, Chesapeake Corp., which owns 35% of C. & O. common stock. Guaranty Trust Co. has its hands on the elevator connecting all three because it has possession of Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral on three bond issues now in technical default...