Word: controler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This unbalance makes it necessary that every passenger car built today requires . . . straight line stops ... or the car will skid out of control . . . When it comes to curves which slow a car without the use of brakes, the same principle applies, and you are liable to go off the road and land wrapped round a tree or in the ditch. Unavoidable deceleration of a car on a curve with weight out in front results in many fatal accidents...
...implement this pact, "such as gradual disarmament?" Stalin's answer was "Naturally." Acheson pointed out that the U.S. demobilization had been "not gradual but . . . precipitant." With other U.N. nations, he said, the U.S. had supported attempts to settle disputes peacefully, to establish an international police force and international control of the atomic bomb. Their efforts were blocked by Soviet vetoes and intransigence...
Lange's trip to Washington impressed on him the hard central fact of Norway's situation-that Norway is such a fine potential plane and submarine base that neither side feels it can afford to let the other side control her. The exchange of notes is not mere diplomatic mumbo-jumbo but a part of the suppressed...
Last week Dr. Leonard Scheele, Surgeon General of the PHS, reported on the ten-year-old VD-control program. Said he: "We're no longer fighting a defensive battle . . . We have been able to take the offensive." Deaths from syphilis dropped from about 21,000 in 1938 to 13,000 in 1948, the number of civilian cases reported from...
...worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...