Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling out, Fonck threw off his safety belt in order to reach the stick mounting, pry the shell case loose, finally succeeded, under fire from German planes above...
...Passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill, imposing a 19½% tax on coal sales by producers who do not subscribe to a coal code fixing minimum coal prices; omitting the labor provisions which caused the old Guffey Coal Act to be invalidated. Sent it to the Senate...
...names, to get full value for their gold at the Bank of France (i. e., a "40% profit" in devalued francs) and to buy bonds payable in francs, dollars or sterling upon demand; finally Finance Minister Auriol inspired confidence by giving up his stranglehold on the French currency exchange control fund and this will be managed by a new committee, one of which is Professor Charles Rist, long-time Bank of France executive and about as radical as Virginia's Carter Glass. In his speech Premier Blum had smoothly avoided replying to taunts that he himself seemed to have...
...most prevalent forms of cancer in women, however, are cancer of the breast and womb, which are the most curable. To bring this message of warning and hope to the 45,000,000 U. S. women was this week the purpose of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's "Women's Army" of 2,000,000 women operate in 39 States under Director Clarence Cook Little. This is the largest movement ever loosed against disease...
...Little saw that before he set out to propagandize laymen on cancer control, more doctors would have to be persuaded that an informed layman was a good patient. He also had to encourage more doctors to learn more about a disease whose treatment was plagued with tragic and humiliating failures. Three years ago, after many an appearance on the rostrum of many a medical and biological society, Dr. Little felt he had the doctors back of him. Logically, his next attack was on that group of cancer sufferers which is most numerous and amenable to treatment...