Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Manchukuo (Japanese) and Mongolian (Russian) troops skirmishing again on the Soviet-protected Outer Mongolian border, with Japan still refusing to evacuate her troops from the International Settlement at Kulangsu, with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships...
...never had time to take five years off to become a U. S. citizen. (But in 1928, Princeton classmates paid his passage to their 25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious prejudices, Sam Higginbottom put sacred...
...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...
...Alcatraz last October. Pat Reed was to say: 1) that Convicts Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole had made a clean getaway from Alcatraz in 1937, had not drowned, as the G-men reported; and 2) that a mass escape is now being planned, involving the seizure of a strategic control tower...
Last week, Berle made another stab at ideological control of Senator O'Mahoney's Monopoly Committee. He appeared at its investment bank hearings to tell how to fix up the capital market. Erudite, as usual, he backed up his remarks by allusions to economic bigwigs like England's John Maynard Keynes, Brookings Institution's Harold Glenn Moulton. His program took over three much-hashed New Deal recovery inducers, pronounced them not-radical, stamped them with the Berle trademark...