Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extension of their old agreement, pending further talk about his demands. The operators refused, insisted upon a two-year renewal of their old agreement without change. Nettled by this response from men with whom he had dealt amicably for years, angry Mr. Lewis reasoned that railways, banks, steel companies control many a coal mine. "Obviously," he growled, "the interference of outside interests has stopped an agreement...
...like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one, studies can be made on fixed models of 19-ft. wingspread in winds of more than 250 m.p.h. In the other a model can be flown as in free air, operated by remote control from a tunnel cockpit. Control is achieved through fine wires to electromagnets in the ship...
...corporate name of the community of St. Vincent Archabbey. Decade ago the late Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, who had established a Catholic University in Peiping, China, borrowed $250,000 from Peiping's National City Bank at 7% (legal Chinese rate), for repairs and new buildings. Archabbot Stehle died, control of the university passed from the Benedictines to the Society of the Divine Word, and the loan went unpaid. In 1936, the bank brought suit against the Benedictines, who countered by claiming that their Archabbot, in conducting the affairs of the university, had acted independently of the Society. A Federal judge...
...members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove to the Mayor that they want the housing project, and that they want it without plum trees...
Healey was pitted against Indian ace, Chief Wonson, and Tom ran into trouble right from the start. His control wasn't quite what it can be, and the Indians made him work pretty hard. Hanna opened up by drawing a pass, and then Gus Broberg exploded the first ball pitched to him for a home run into some broken down right field bleachers...