Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vain were the efforts of Senators Hale and Maloney to forbid the use of PWA money to build plants competing with private industry (see p. 59), equally vain Senators' attempts to earmark money, for rivers & harbors, flood control, or PWA projects already approved. The President in a letter to Colorado's Adams, used the magic word "Emergency!" The money must be spent quickly, he said, to bridge the summer gap before private industry can begin adding to its payrolls in the winter. This reasoning defeated also a provision to have the spending spread over a full eight months...
...like architecture which Germany brought in at the last minute to win points. Many events mean many participants, and in the large countries the organization of the tams is now big business. A lot of fine sportsmen are on the committees, but they tend to be elbowed out of control by the politicians, wire pullers, and promoters. The games are slipping out of the hands of those interested in sports for their own sake...
This fall of the Olympics away from the sportsmen to the control of the politicians and statesmen, which is the result of running them on too big a scale, has reached a serious stage. When so patient and sportsmanlike a figure as Bingham can no longer associate himself with the games, it is clear that something rots and smells in the state of affairs...
...looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which it is synchronized, does not permit playing games with a neighbor's radio...
Plans to put Mystery Control-equipped sets on the market in a month are tentative because of labor trouble at the Philadelphia plant. C.I.O. pickets were on hand for the Chicago convention...