Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costello also "laid off" bets with big bookies and kept a finger in real estate. After repeal, with financial backing from William Helis, the "Golden Greek" (who demanded 20,000 cases of choice Scotch for security), Costello and Kastel bought control of Britain's Whiteley Distillery, producers of House of Lords and King's Ransom Scotch. The board of directors agreed to pay Costello ?5,000 ($24,400) a year simply for "frequenting first-class hotels and restaurants and asking to be supplied with the company's brands." But the slot machines were Costello's gold...
...exchange for these concessions the Germans would have to promise to: 1) take their assigned seats on the Ruhr Authority set up by the Western powers last April, and thereby formally accept international control of the Ruhr's industrial output; 2) make some public statement indicating acceptance of continuing military security inspection by the Western powers; 3) cooperate in reforming the hidebound German civil service and decartelizing German industry...
...Safety. The reparations agreement was made on the optimistic assumption that Germany, under four-power control, would be administered as an economic unit. After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making...
Saturday afternoon, with dusk coming on, Panama's mild-mannered President Daniel Chanis screwed up his courage to summon Colonel Jos´ ("Chichi") Remón, chief of national police, for a painful interview. The press had been pounding hard with charges of police grafting in the control of slaughterhouse and bus-line operations. After the latest blast in the Panama American, Chanis had made his decision: Remón must...
...Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...