Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Costs. Today the U. S. is spending $50,000,000 per year on river and harbor development, $35,000,000 on flood control. President Hoover predicted that his program could be undertaken and carried through by the expenditure of only an additional $10,000,000 per year - or $20,000,000 if the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway were included...
...examination of the Mississippi Flood Control Plan, with possible readjustments of floodways below the Arkansas...
Although Herr Kreuger has raised many millions of dollars in foreign countries, none of his expansion program has been attended with any risk of loss of control. Class A shares of Kreuger & Toll, central Kreuger company, must be held by Swedes; Class B shares, permissible to foreigners, carry only one vote per thousand shares...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31-Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine...
...crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that during the long chat which followed he gave Mr. King pointers concerning President Hoover's reaction to three present causes of friction between Dominion and U. S.: 1) The proposed U. S. agricultural tariffs infuriating to Canada's farmers; 2) Control of liquor smuggling; 3) Allotment of radio wavelengths of which Canadians are sure they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State Dinner in Canada's Parliament House, candid MacDonald revealed a trifle of what had passed before the log fire at "Kingsmere." Host King...