Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their first immediate application to industry, Chaffee's findings are expected to affect markedly the manufacture and use of the giant power tubes through which radio stations daily control and transmit hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of electrical energy...
...Repeater" tubes are used to magnify the voice thousands of times in long-distance telephoning; sound movies, the "electric eye," remote control devices, X-ray, and television are all applications of the vacuum tube...
...unique wastrel against whom the New Life Movement struggled in vain was Chiang Wei-kuo. He is the son of a Japanese waitress & a Chinese official whom Generalissimo Chiang obliged by adopting the lad as his own son. In vain Chiang Wei-kuo was put under the direct control of Mme Chiang. She could do nothing with him. He was sent to Germany, last year suddenly appeared in London and forced the Chinese Delegation to the Coronation of King George VI to get him in on it and on all the best parties...
...over absolute power with a new constitution two months ago (TIME, Nov. 22), Author Davis reported: "The present regime in Brazil is the stark, unabashed personal dictatorship by Getulio Vargas, the President. . . . The secret of his power is in the manipulation of army officers. . . . As long as he can control a majority of the army he is safe. He also tries to secure the backing of business and has now the support of the majority, who are willing to tolerate almost anyone, provided profits continue and civil war is avoided...
...because most sugar-producing nations consume their own output. The U. S., for example, exports no domestic sugar, but grows some 6% of the world total and eats 22%, hence has no quota under the International Sugar Pact. It does have production quotas of its own, however, to control its beet sugar producers in the West, its cane sugar production in Louisiana, Florida and island possessions...