Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's courts and press last week three hardheaded, self-made midwesterners were locked in noisy battle for control of the largest building and loan company in the U. S.-the $50,000,000 Pacific States Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan Commissioner Ralph Willard Evans, who fortnight ago took over Pacific States "to conserve and protect the investments of thousands of people"; 2) retired Millionaire Norman Waite Church, who was appointed custodian of the company; 3) ham-fisted Robert Stewart Odell, Pacific States' chief owner...
Although greater in tonnage and ships than the Franco Navy, the Loyalist fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship Espa...
Last fortnight Senator Wagner introduced into Congress a "National Health Bill" which asked for an appropriation of $98,000,000 for maternal and child welfare, cancer, pneumonia and malaria control, construction of new hospitals, extension of medical research...
Ford, General Motors and Chrysler today control 90% of the U. S. car market. Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson and the few other remaining independents survive on 9% of the dwindling medium-price field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with...
...boys on bicycles meandered along a Dorsetshire lane. Suddenly over a dip in the road roared a motorbike, doing about 55. To avoid the boys its rider swerved violently, skidded, lost control, catapulted over the handlebars. Six days later, without regaining consciousness, he died. So finished, at 46, the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...