Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe) ; a strong U.N. (he opposed the veto at San Francisco); the Taft-Hartley Act (except for the closed-shop, union political activity, and anti-Communist provisions); strong labor unions; tax reduction and debt retirement (any surplus split 50-50 between them); tax concessions for small business; Government controls on inventories, consumer credit, commodity speculation; a $1 billion-a-year Government housing program; rent control; FEPC; a modified U.M.T.; parity price support; admission of D.P.s...
...against: shipment of potential war material to Russia; price-control and rationing; the proposed Missouri Valley Authority...
...Four straight days of heavy rains brimmed over the Ohio River, drove 31,000 people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...
Many a Canadian who has watched U.S. investment grow to control a third of Canadian industry worries lest ERP speed up this process. Neither Washington nor Ottawa foresees ERP investment in industry; indeed, both contend that ERP will not reduce Canadian economic independence a whit...
...contrary, Ottawa expects ERP to help keep Canada's economy from outright U.S. control. It will preserve the traditional three-cornered pattern of Canadian commerce (buying in the U.S. and selling to Europe). If ERP puts Europe on its feet, the benefit to Canada will be permanent. If ERP fails, the preservation will be temporary, and Canada will have to cut its economic cloth to a new pattern...