Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past two Congresses. And, with certain exceptions, those two bodies rejected the presidential suggestions. Yesterday, of course, there was an important difference--the Eighty-First Congress. The dominant note of suspicion and outright hostility between legislative and executive have vanished. Once more there is a victorious party in control of both governmental branches, a party elected on a platform of defined issues. There is consequently a feeling of relief in the country--even among opponents of the President--that the responsibility for future decisions rests squarely on one party. That party has a program, and, with the necessary party discipline...
...officials reported that the Boeing Field control tower had given advice to the pilot who attempted the fatal take-off "tantamount to telling him that the field was closed...
Transcripts of the pilot's conversations with the control tower disclose, however, that the plane was "cleared for take-off," asserted officials of the air charter service in a counter-charge...
...Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. Here...
Problems of Management. Under Dr. Pitzer's control will come the chain of laboratories which the AEC is building throughout the country. Much of his work will be top-secret, concerned with atom bombs and other nuclear weapons. An even greater responsibility of Pitzer's will be to make the atom serve-as well as threaten-civilization...