Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberia is a large country, ruled by a few thousand Negroes, the descendants of immigrant freedmen from the United States. This handful of Americo-Liberians struggles to maintain a European civilization in the unhealthy lowlands along the coast, and has nominal control over many savage native tribes in the hinterland. The country is completely undeveloped and the outlook from every point of view has been, until very recently, most disheartening...
...questionnaire contrived by some students in the departments of sociology and psychology, assisted by their professors and circulated among 500 boy students and 500 girls. The questionnaire probed boldly into questions of sex: What did students think about trial marriage, sexual relations, licit and illicit, large families, birth control, proper age for marriage? The investigators explained that "during the last several decades it has become unceasingly apparent that there is something seriously wrong with the traditional system of marriage in this country." Two hundred students had written out their answers before President Brooks and the alumni objected. The answers were...
Utilities. Two leading western utility companies will be joined when legal arrangements are completed for the control of Southern California Gas Corp. by Pacific Lighting Corp. Combined assets will...
Aviation. Newly formed Aviation Corp. (TIME, March 18) is said to have obtained control of Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America and Fairchild Aviation Corp., two well-known manufacturing companies, and to hold a "substantial interest" in Universal Aviation Corp., important in the transportation field...
Died. Lee Bible, 45, Florida garage mechanic; after losing control of a 1,500-h. p. automobile moving at 202 m.p.h. along Daytona Beach...