Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clanks and booms from above. The commanding Naval officer on duty, yanked from his bed, remembered that in the big safe on the top floor was $84,500 pay for the 300 Depot employes. For five hours robbers held the Navy's great supply base out of U. S. control...
...RESOLVED, that the membership of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association views with deepest concern the continued efforts being made to negative the operation of the law of supply and demand and to substitute in its stead an artificial control of the price of newsprint. . . . The membership further feels that any increase in the price of newsprint, in the face of existing conditions will be persuasive evidence that such increased price will be the result of collusive combination...
...Shuddered at the pacifism of the Labor Government as militarist Baron Middleton challenged "The British Army has now fallen below its strength in 1895 . . . and yet . . . and yet since 1895 we have taken over the control of the Sudan and accepted the mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia" (called "Irak" by younger...
...case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country, through the strengthening and expansion of the Western Pacific. Having come to this conclusion, I bought control of the Western Pacific. . . . I see in northern California an opportunity to play my part in the constructive development of a great region...
...become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor remedies. Assimilation of the few by the many is more logical. But race friction usually hinders assimilation. Thus closes the vicious circle making another war inevitable. One Thompson remedy for population troubles: the dissemination of birth control information among growing peoples such as Italians, Chinese, East Indians...