Word: control
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...investment and to pay back that investment over a period of 40 years. In this formula, however, there was a big joker. The Government investment would not be the total cost of the development but only that part allocated to power. The rest would be charged off to flood control or navigation. On the Tennessee River, Wilson Dam, for instance, is valued at $33,000,000 but for yardstick purposes the power investment is considered to be only $22,000,000. Division of the $51,000,000 investment in Bonneville has not yet been determined by the Federal Power Commission...
...guard against injury from radiations in the vicinity of the cyclotron, Dr. Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron-braking hydrogen atoms...
...Traffic Safety Institute in which police officers from all parts of the U. S. enroll in two courses, one general course of two weeks, the other a full university term from October to June. The short course deals with accident investigation, reports and records, traffic legislation, pedestrian control, and drunken-driver control. The nine-month training covers all this with such additions as public speaking, vehicle inspection, traffic engineering and criminal law. Practical demonstrations and problems are worked out on the streets of Evanston...
...board and college had been ruled by Tammany Hall. Since 1934 Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had made inroads on this regime by appointing nine members to vacancies. But when three more terms expired last June, and one of his appointees resigned, the Mayor, on the verge of transferring control of higher education from Tammany to Fusion, was stumped to fill the four places. The job is unpaid, takes considerable time and many prominent citizens fear to become embroiled in politics. Finally, two weeks ago, the mayor found respectable citizens who would take three of the jobs, giving...
...significance of these experiments was that stimulation to any spot in a cat's hind brain radiates to other control spots in the hind brain, since in every cat which Drs. Clark & Ward trepanned, the single stimulus set off an unvarying sequence of all the cat's actions. This suggested what every notable physiologist has hoped to prove-that there is a particular spot in the hind brain for the control of every muscle in the body...