Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been dragging on in Tokyo since July 15: the parleys on Tientsin (where 59-year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency issue. There being nothing more to talk about, British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie buzzed...
...July 25, 1939, when the U. S. ratified a new treaty which gave the Republic of Panama: 1) control of its own resources (no longer can the U. S. obtain land outside the Canal Zone for "maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection" of the Canal merely by asking); 2) a transisthmian highway, hitherto blocked by Panama Railroad's monopoly; 3) $430,000 instead of $250,000 Canal Zone rent per annum (retroactive to 1934) to compensate for devaluation of the U. S. dollar...
Without distribution by the wholesalers, TIME lost about 1,500 circulation in England. But the wholesalers do not entirely control newsstand circulation. TIME'S distributors, Milton Gorringe Ltd., went straight to the retailers, sold some 750 copies on newsstands and on the streets last week...
Pasturage for everybody began to look lusher a year ago. State laws had failed to bring order into the shed, but interstate control by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ended price-cutting competition from the six outlying States. So last year New York State's dairy farmers held a referendum, voted to subject themselves to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement...
...month later Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...