Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking the peso off the peg and establishing a natural barrier to unnecessary imports, Finance Minister Beteta did what some of Mexico's sister republics may have to do. Tighter controls would have invited abuse in a country in which political privilege is hard to control. It would have stimulated the already brisk smuggling trade and set up an even more complex bureaucracy than Mexico already has. And it would have created a black market in peso-dollar trading...
...much of an innovation for Hoboken. Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery. State law forbids the presence of minors in a barroom. Furthermore, said Hock piously, "Longfellow would turn over in his grave if he knew...
...mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...
...tall (6 ft.) and thin (146 Ibs.), like the hand of a stopwatch. His toothpick legs must be pampered; he ran seven races in two days last year and pulled a hamstring muscle. Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure...
wice in 25 years the Office of Alien Property confiscated the German-owned American Bosch Corp. Once, after World War I, the Germans slyly got it back. Lask week the Government sold the company again, but this time it made sure that no alien would ever again control Bosch. The buyer was Allen & Co., an aggressive Wall Street investment banking house with the reputation of holding on to what it gets...