Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler shrank the prices of leading issues by some 7% one day last week. A prime German blue chip, Vereinigte Stahl Werke (United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...whipped off Floyd Bennett Field for Paris a little over four days earlier, was the most foolproof private plane that ever flew. It had two radio compasses, three radio transmitters (see p. 50), three receivers. It had a Sperry gyro-pilot, a new type drift indicator, robot navigational control. It had a crew of four men trained in the use of all these instruments...
Pharaoh of Egypt thought so highly of Joseph for inventing the ever-normal granary plan of crop control that he freed him from jail, made him governor. Although the scheme worked well enough then, it has taken thousands of years, millions of dollars and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to put it on the grand scale. After four years Secretary Wallace finally succeeded in getting Congress to adopt the plan in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. Last week his emissary to the International Wheat Conference in London ambitiously proposed putting the granary plan on a world-wide basis...
London's general manager, Solomon W. Pitchenik, wrote New Jersey's Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett to ask what rules governed the sale of the eerie dessert. Last week. Commissioner Burnett promptly banned its manufacture and sale because "liquorized ice cream is attractive to children." But Distiller Pitchenik is not interested in the child market, still hopes to get his dish onto hotel and night-club menus, where it would be served in place of a cordial, act as a "combination of cocktail and dessert," contain all the elements of both "with the ingredients...
Gradually James Prince got control of the Temple. His followers, mosty women, wore the world's clothes, sat tatting when they should have been minding the children. The young people played croquet and practiced to be mediums. James Prince won all but Isaiah and the oldest Templers to his belief in Hunger-ology, Care-ology, Womb-ology. By the time he came to construct a Machine Messiah according to the directions of Benjamin Franklin and the Association of Electricizers, the children were quarreling and no one in the Temple was working. The Machine was a complicated tangle of magnets...