Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of guerrilla activities in occupied areas was indicated in a map published this week by the Intelligence Officers of the U. S. Fourth Marines stationed at Shanghai. It looked like the vision of a cartographer who had just been clubbed over the head. Big stars marking guerrilla-controlled areas, showed that actual Japanese control extends only a few miles each side of railroads, rivers, canals. Six stars dotted the map above Peking...
Some laws, said the professor, are bad from the beginning, others worse, with time and change. Unless someone dares to violate such laws and leads others to disregard them, they are not repealed, block progress. Sample bad laws: Prohibition, antigambling, anti-birth control. Professor Dunlap's list of history's lawless heroes: Jesus Christ, Margaret Sanger, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, George Washington (crime: treason against Britain), several other unnamed U. S. Presidents...
With no fuss, feathers, din or dither, U. S. aviation this week came completely under control of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority. Before that, it had been the concern of an assortment of Federal agencies. One of Washington's most sprawled-out bureaus, CAA took up its quarters partly in the Bureau of Air Commerce, partly in the Bureau of Air Mail, partly in rooms rented over Childs Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Worried about cotton and wheat surpluses, announced next year's crop-control program (see below...
Whether or not this year's surplus problems can be solved, the AAA last week fixed 1939 benefit payments at 26-to-30? a bu., 14-18? above the 1938 rate, for U. S. wheat farmers who reduce their acreage 31%. Otherwise, next year's crop-control program is substantially the same as this year's. Total amount earmarked for 1939 benefit payments...