Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here Come the Kings. Among the crowd of curious Berliners in front of the Allied Control Authority building, in Berlin's Potsdamer Strasse, the name of France's General Pierre Koenig caused excitement (Koenig means king in German). "Where's the king?" cried a little four-year-old girl. "I want to see the king...
...Russian mark were accepted as Berlin's only money. The Russians might use their currency as an effective weapon to conquer Berlin in the long run-depending partly on just how the men around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
...tests on 12,000 laboratory mice, the new drug produced dramatic results. It cured mice in the early stages of polio; all mice in control groups not getting the drug died. The mice that survived were immune to reinfection. Mice getting a single dose of the drug by mouth did not develop the disease when injected with mouse polio virus...
...develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
...success of GCA was something for U.S. commercial lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to study. Though commercial pilots have generally preferred ILS (instrument landing system) because they control landings themselves, many a commercial pilot on airlift duty has now been won over to GCA. Said one last week: "When I think of all the hours I've spent stacked up in the soup over New York, maybe this is the answer...