Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flathers introduced the resolution on the floor of the Senate on March ninth one week after a surprise presidential order transferred control of the nine transports to the Army from the Maritime Commission which had operated the ships for student travel last summer. The ships all capable of carrying up to 900 passengers, were the Ernic Pyle, the Marine Jumper, Marine Carp, Marine Marlin, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch, as well as the three boats named above...
...consolidated railroads, he saw that his work could be completely wrecked by bad management. What better way was there to insure good management than to place control of all the roads in members of his firm or friends? He had complete contempt for those men who had used railroads as speculative toys, such as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould, and his method was the only way he could make sure that such men would be kept out of railroad management...
This is the pattern of Morgan's work, consolidation to eliminate wasteful competition and then control to insure good management. The evils of the Morgan system are obvious, but unlike his predecessors, Allen merely presents the motives and lets his readers decide whether they are good or bad. His book contains material for both the muckraker and the Morgan-worshipper. It paves the way for a more scientific evaluation of this period than has been possible in the past...
...move placed Edgar in official control of the corporation at a time when a strong hand was needed to combat dropping sales and rising competition. A smart, hard-working man who spends twelve hours a day in the office, he was probably the only man in K-F who might be able to pull the company through its troubles...
...proponents of this method of voting state that it eliminates the evils of the ward system and destroys the power of the "ward boss" over city officials; the councilmen are responsible only to the people And, since the Council in turn appoints a city manager, the voters have direct control over the entire civic administration...