Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without fair trade, big business could and would destroy little business by underselling. With control of retail outlets, big business could establish its own monopolistic prices, both wholesale and retail...
...superarmaments; as long as our foreign policy is based on building and sustaining reactionary and fascist governments abroad (as witness the sending of American Marines and equipment to bolster Chiang Kai-Shek) as long as the military and big businessmen of the Dulles-Forrestal variety exercise such tremendous control over this country's approach to foreign and domestic issues, that for this period, we shall remain as before: draft-bait. A sudden "emergency" could well play havoc with the "deferment" policy...
...meeting also adopted a plank which called for the federal government to take a "positive constructive role" in atomic development for both war and peace, in regional flood control and water power development, and in large-scale low-cost public housing and clearance. The club felt that public housing would relieve the rent situation-without leaving the way open for unfair treatment of landlords for political reasons...
Another plank stated: "We oppose any tax reduction which would either impede national defense or produce additional Federal deficits." The club also went on record as opposing general price control laws...
...Control of the backboards in a typical early-season game was the magic lamp for Eliot, as the score see-sawed never more than four points either way. The Adams squad was more coordinated and shot better, but center Bob Crichton and guards Charlie Hugo and Joe Walsh of Eliot kept them to one shot at a time...