Word: control
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harry R. DeSilva, head of driver training in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, having supervised scientific driver tests on several control groups of 500 men apiece, reported yesterday that a 90 percent reduction in the accidents of his subjects had been shown after exhaustive clinic tests had been conducted in seventeen states...
...glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth...
...every spastic paralytic can take a gamble like Sylva's. Sometimes the motor control centres of the brain are injured at birth. Such children may learn to walk after a fashion, but their movements are disordered and uncontrolled. They are often mistakenly considered feebleminded, although the intellectual centres of the brain are intact and the sufferers may be intelligent. Best hope of improvement for such persons is in patient self-education and enlightened help from others. One of the most eminent spastic paralytics in the U. S. is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan's Neurological Institute (TIME...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...
...State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. Distilled Liquors stock flopped on the Curb to $3.50 a share. The Attorney General's office called in Robert J. Rosenthal, cashier of Richard Whitney & Co. Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans. The first such transfer revealed was $125,000 worth of securities belonging to the New York Yacht Club. Other revelations: Dick Whitney had an unsecured loan of $474,000 from...