Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over a year disgruntled Monagasques have sent letters and delegations to their grumpy prince, have begged him to repair the water works, improve the telephone service, allow his subjects greater control in the direction of that fountain head of all Monaco's prosperity, the Monte Carlo Casino (TIME, Jan. 7, 1928). Grumpy Prince Louis did nothing. Lately the Monagasques have been louder in their demands. Brusquely they threatened to revolt...
...leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant. But gradually the show grew bigger, the animals wilder, the freaks more peculiar and the patronage more substantial. In 1907 Mr. Ringling bought control of Barnum & Bailey, became leader of the industry which he now dominates. His combined employe list totals some 6,500, and his wealth is estimated in eight figures...
...turbines and transmission systems. Unfortunately, however, the utility field does not lend itself to such simplification. The House of Morgan is not sole owner of any of the utility companies in which it is interested; its holdings are usually no more than a substantial minority, not including an operating control; and if it chooses to regard itself as investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power...
...christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although his Republican attorney-general has reported it as within the law. Last week's excitement also centred along the St. Lawrence. Niagara-Hudson bought control of Frontier Corp., a company owned by Aluminum Co. (Mellon), General Electric and the du Ponts. One asset of Frontier Corp. is a waterpower site at Long Sault, on the St. Lawrence. Frontier Corp. prepared to develop this site two years ago, was blocked by Governor Alfred E. Smith...
...natural law. . . . How can those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing more evil and committing a sin in the sight...