Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the blueprints were plainly drawn from U.S. models. Thus, the commission suggested a form of Federal Reserve System to control credit. It counseled that the Brazilian practice of "seeking high profits from a limited market" should be supplanted by a business philosophy of mass production at favorable cost...
...could be cured simultaneously in three days with only one injection (45? worth of penicillin), it would be big medical news indeed. It was reported last week that such good news is not an impossible hope. Dr. R. C. Arnold of the U.S. Public Health Services' Venereal Disease Control Research Laboratory announced that in 85 test cases, a single injection of 300,000 units (one cubic centimeter) of penicillin made syphilis noninfectious within 72 hours, and has kept it that way for most patients during the six to eight months the experiment has been running...
...highway and rail traffic (including responsibility for safety and railroad consolidation plans). ¶ All functions of the Office of Defense Transportation. ¶ The Maritime Commission's operations involving shipping purchases, sales, loans and subsidies. ¶ Direction of the Public Roads Administration, now in the Federal Works Agency. ¶ Control of the Coast Guard, now in the Treasury Department. ¶CAB's job of making air safety rules...
...Hoover Commission also recommended that the Treasury get control of three credit agencies, now independent: the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Export-Import Bank. To coordinate the 30 other U.S. lending agencies, and to advise the President on money matters, it suggested the setting up of a National Monetary and Credit Council...
...headed the shipping company since 1946, thought it should branch out even more in the air-travel field. National also was dickering for Pan Am to buy 346,000 shares on its own hook, and agree to interchange some routes and equipment with National. Neither company would have control, though both together would easily control National...