Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-rate record of the Olympics is concerned, Rank's monopoly of the shooting may be all to the good. Only thus, perhaps, with all cameras under single control, will it be possible to do for the London games what Leni Riefenstahl did for Berlin...
...with 800,000 feet of negative, 19 specially adapted cameras, 60 specially trained cameramen and technicians. He will dress his whole team in green trousers and white blazers, and provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...
...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
...strike is the latest success in a remarkable comeback. Once a bankrupt, squabble-ridden company, control of Richfield was bought in 1936 by Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Cities Service Co. Under Sinclair, as chairman, it went after new oil leases, built up its known oil reserves from 25,000,000 barrels in 1937 to 220,000,000 last year. Investors were betting that its reserves had just begun to climb. In the last two months its stock went from...
...close-to-the-vest fight for control of New England's biggest railroad, Boston's shrewd, old (82) Frederic C. Dumaine held an impressive hand. Dumaine interests had claimed that they had picked up enough New York, New Haven & Hartford stock to elect eleven of the 16 directors (TIME, May 17). Last week, with a stockholders' showdown meeting still a month off, the opposition folded up. Howard S. Palmer, who, Boston charged, was too close to New York interests, resigned after 14 years as New Haven's president. To make New England's victory over...