Word: control
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family board,* which could measure its wealth by the wealth of top U.S. industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons have absolute or dominant control; First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests...
Through the state legislature, Mellon, Lawrence & friends jammed a parcel of bills for countywide smoke control, sewage disposal, better highways, higher taxes. Pittsburgh only gradually became aware of what was happening. But in three years, much...
...pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards of living unless the resulting population increase is curbed, he stated...
...class yearbook, "314," replaces the old-fashioned Class Album. The move was authorized last year by the Student Council in an effort to cut its losses in supporting the perennially money-losing Albums. At the same time the Council shifted control of the Freshman Register to the same group, and completely junked the Freshman Red Book...
...Association has found it difficult, however, to collaborate with other national student groups. "Since our country is still under some control," the Association reports, "our program is obliged to be limited to a small scale so far as international activities are concerned. We have held twice a Japanese American Student Conference since the War, but the delegation of American side was to be from the occupation personnels...