Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanksgiving? U.S. excess stocks were plentiful, if badly out of balance. The U.S. had plenty of antiaircraft guns (many of them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...
...currently examining New York's Feinberg Anti-Subversive Law for symptoms of constitutionality. A number of civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...
...more. The hubbub has worried enough Catholic-conscious Representatives into joining the economizers and the I-don't-want-any-centralized-thought-control people in sitting heavily on all Federal aid to education. Now not even the Senate-passed Thomas Bill, which differs only from the Barden Bill in leaving the appropriations entirely up to the states, is expected to get anywhere. Federal aid to education is a long...
Never before have two games been won by 1 to 0 scores in single Series, much less in succession. Control has been so, amazing that so far no Yankee has been given first base on balls. Raschi issued only one walk--and that was intentional...
Near-by traffic officers rushed to the scene, and, before they had brought the situation entirely under control, a squad car also roared up an spewed forth its quota of police. The dog was speedily hustled into the squad car, and quite restored. The dog, according to its tag, came from Middletown, Connecticut...