Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one small and stationary part of the big show. Prosperity, heat, the feel of victory and the Derby Day jockeying of the candidates gave Philadelphia the look and sound of a midway. The tabloid New York Daily News suggested that its atmosphere could be sampled by remote control simply by "swallowing a snort of bourbon, lighting a cigarette, putting scented talcum powder on a damp baby and inhaling...
...promised continuation of the bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans would "encourage" unity in western Europe; they believed in "collective security against aggression"; they would support U.N.; they "welcomed Israel into the family of nations"; they would "cherish" friendship with China; and "relentlessly pursue our aims for the universal limitation and control of arms and implements of war on a basis of reliable discipline against bad faith...
...domestic planks were cut pretty much to the policies of Robert Taft. The party reasserted its belief in "minimum" government controls and in the U.S. competitive system, the "mainspring of material well-being and political freedom." At the same time Republicans pledged themselves to protect "both workers and employers against coercion and exploitation," recognized the responsibilities of the Federal Government in housing, conservation, public health, security for the aged. But they vested final control of such matters in the states, not in Washington bureaucracy...
...Stand-by rationing and price control...
...Flight 624 of United Air Lines, nine hours out of Los Angeles and two hours east of Chicago, was purring sweetly at 17,000 feet over ridge-ribbed central Pennsylvania. In his four-engined 300-m.p.h. DC-6, Veteran Pilot George Warner Jr. received his clearance from the traffic-control tower at New York City's La Guardia Field-meaning that he could let down gradually in the next 230 miles for his approach to New York...