Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...qualifications for years and years and years) I idly looked at the back page of my Psalms--which was of course the front page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that I was supposed to open my mouth and speak my piece and not sit there and grin in surprise...
China Development Corp. This concern sold its control to Belgian interests whom Chinese suspected of being secret agents for the Imperial Russian Government. In 1905 the Imperial Chinese Government bought back the concession for $6,750,000. At the time the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, some 30 miles of the railway had been completed. In succeeding turbulent years parts of the line were built by fits & starts by Chinese groups to serve their local interests...
...also constructed a small fiddle, played on it with a homemade bow. In addition, Mr. Mitchell got to be something of an amateur magician. Last week it was revealed that in future Publisher Mitchell will have all the time he wishes to devote to architecture, music and prestidigitation. Control of his magazine was shifted to an editorial group who planned to prod Pathfinder along a new journalistic trail...
...Providence Journal and Bulletin. Inheriting a share in Pathfinder last February from his father-in-law, the late Senate Sergeant-at-Arms David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised more photographs, breezier copy, brighter gags. Two things about Pathfinder that Republican Publisher Brown...
Meantime, Favorite Howard took off from Wichita, was speeding over a Navajo reservation in New Mexico when Mister Mulligan's gas line broke. Out of control, the little white plane plummeted to the ground. Drawn by the crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death...