Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above the city's income. He mortgaged most of Boston's real estate, spent taxes that were to be collected in the following year, secured loans indiscriminately from any bank that would give them. Consequently, he incurred the wrath of not only the bankers who had lost control of the city, but also of many voters who didn't care to see his mysterious financing reflected in tax rate hikes...
Atkinson has had his Councils in the past well under control. Transactions dealing with job appointments and contracts awards in the past may not have been all pristine in their political purity, but there is no more and probably much less dishonesty in the Cambridge administration than in other municipalities in the United States...
Gordon's first big public job was to set up a foreign-exchange control system at the beginning of World War II. He did so well that the government borrowed him for the much tougher job of running the Wartime Prices and Trade Board...
...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
...words of his onetime boss Jesse Jones, "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S." He also knows a lot about what goes on in Washington. FRB is backing a bill in Congress which would give the board greater regulatory powers over bank holding companies that control more than 15% of the stock of an operating bank. Once Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America are reduced to 11.1%, it could argue that FRB should not be concerned with Transamerica even though the 11.1% might still be working control...