Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work Half-Done. Outstanding upon the 70th Congress's list of good intentions when it met were eight measures, varying from a flood control outlay to radio legislation. Of these eight intentions, four had been debated, three passed by one or other of the houses and five not yet acted upon by either house, up to last week. The half-done work was as follows...
...power plant would furnish electricity to at least twelve states and should be operated by the government rather than private individuals or corporations, for the dam has direct influence on flood control and navigation. Moreover the government already owns the site and therefore would not have to incur the expense and the consequent higher rates that an outsider would be forced to charge...
...sooner had he disappeared than the student pulled out from under his suit a duplicate control stick, which his fellow-students had advised him to take on his trip. He adjusted it carefully and came slowly down to earth, circling about the descending instructor with his right thumb pressed against his nose and his four fingers extended upward and outward, and with the smile still shining on his face...
...that the Federal District Attorney at Manhattan, Charles R. Tuttle, considers a combination in restraint of trade and which he wants broken up. His reasons: Three companies-Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Philip Carey Mfg. Co. of Ohio) and the Keasby Mattison-control 80% of the world's supply of that fibrous-like rock called asbestos; those companies agreed to sell all their output for five years to one of Mr. Dillon's smart young men, duVal R. Goldthwaite; he made purchasing contracts with Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., and Philip Carey...
Married. Dr. John A. Harriss, millionaire, traffic expert (originator of the light system for traffic control) onetime Deputy Police Commissioner, of Manhattan, secretly, two years ago to Miss Carolyn Montreux, of Manhattan; in Düsseldorf, Germany...