Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prices were too high, and further inflation still threatened. Extend and strengthen rent controls for two years, said Harry Truman; give the President stand-by authority to impose ceilings on some prices and wages, power to control consumer credit, regulate speculation on commodity exchanges and allocate materials in short supply...
...Congress tried its wings last week, with the Democrats triumphantly in control, it seemed almost like old times. Old familiar faces, which had all but disappeared from sight during the two-year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the early New Deal, like West Virginia's demagogic Matt Neely, 74, unpacked in Washington, back from political exile. As in the old New Deal days, congressional corridors were crowded with eager Democratic freshmen, anxious to get their first speeches off their chests...
...Chinese soldier, when well-trained, well-fed and well-led, is as good as any, Bullitt reported. But, he said, many of the top-ranking officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival...
...week's end, the flu (and the hangovers) were still far from under control. Sneezing, snorting Frenchmen speculated about where the flu came from. "I think," said one housewife, "it is an experiment in Russian bacteriological warfare." Others recalled that the post-World War I flu, which supposedly started in Spain, had been known accordingly as the Spanish flu. This one, Frenchmen were sure, had crossed over from Italy. They promptly called it la grippe Italienne. With an acerbity that boded ill for European unity, Italians in Paris retorted by calling it influenza Francese...
Perhaps the biggest stumbling-block for federal aid is the fear--honest or not--of federal control. Everybody wants to get a slice of the federal pie; few prospective beneficiaries want the government to set up uncomfortable standards and stringent conditions. That accounts for a good deal of the hot air about, "federal dictation." The more imaginative opponents (not of aid, necessarily, but of controls) picture a gigantic Washington bureau sending out hatchet-men by the score to bulldoze teachers into pumping unconstitutional propaganda down the maw of American Youth...