Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Navy claimed full control of the Baltic, said it had sunk a Polish destroyer and submarine off Gdynia...
Decision. All that Friday afternoon Commons had been sitting, pondering 16 emergency measures, including war credits of $2,500,000,000, extending conscription to men from 18 to 41, giving the Government control over trade with the enemy. Same day the Ministry of Transport took over the nation's railroads. At 6 p. m. the Prime Minister began to speak. This time he had something...
Sperry Corp. owns Ford Instrument Co. which makes naval gunfire control devices in its closely guarded plant at Long Island City, N. Y., recently bought Waterbury (Conn.) Tool Co. and Vickers, Inc., of Detroit, which manufacture hydraulic pumps and variable speed transmissions. But it is proudest of its biggest and oldest subsidiary, Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Brooklyn and of its English brother, Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., which has just set up a new factory in the English Midlands, to carry on if its London plant is bombed...
...away at its gyros, turned out compasses for surface ships and submarines, stabilizers for seagoing craft from yachts to liners, automatic pilots and gyro instruments for aircraft. It also got many a confidential job from Army and Navy, soon branched out into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
...Aging and ailing is H. (for Hiram) Edward Manville Sr., son of co-founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks...