Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
Operating through a few unions which they control (e.g., fire brigades, electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the motion as "a challenge to the integrity of the rank & file and an insult to their intelligence...
...flying out the revolving door of French politics. That door has been whirling faster & faster of late, exasperating the friends of France abroad and infuriating her people at home. The large number of French parties, fostered by a system of proportional representation, means that one party can hardly ever control more than 35% of the National Assembly. This in turn means that the party in power must govern in coalition with other parties-which keep a jealous watch and often kick over the traces when they get restive...
...loth to leave the safe berth of civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...
Radio as a cultural phenomenon impressed Oxford Historian E. L. Woodward because "for the first time a single voice can address the whole world." In praise of BBC, Woodward says that the British "at once saw the control of broadcasting as one of the problems of liberty. They treated this new source of power over men as they had treated in the past the power of kings and magnates . . . Considered politically, the arrangements governing the BBC and its broadcasts follow the same lines of thought as the order and rules under which the House of Commons has protected the freedom...