Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Three (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg). The Benelux countries depend so closely on German industry that they insisted on a settlement. France yielded along the logical lines of compromise. The agreement in principle looks toward a Ruhr that will be politically part of Germany, but an international control of its economy will see that its products are available for Western Europe's needs...
There were other tentative agreements. The U.S., Great Britain and France would dovetail the economies of their occupation zones in Western Germany. A federal government, protecting states' rights but allowing for "adequate central control," was proposed as the best ultimate form of rule for a unified Germany. These agreements will be translated into specific clauses at another conference in April. Then the French will probably come into a new administrative unit, Trizonia; it will control 69% of Germany's population, a higher proportion of its industrial plant...
...their second week under Communist control, most Czechs were still numb with shock. Some nurtured a newborn hope for a new war soon. In Pilsen a Czech said to a departing American friend: "The next time you come, I hope you come in a tank." Others, by the hundreds, fled into the U.S. zone of Germany. Said one: "I never thought that Czechs would turn to Germany for refuge...
...presumably U.S. rocketmen are making progress. To judge from the photograph (the only information released), the Aerobee is much slimmer and lighter than the V2. It is probably an experimental model built, not to make any impressive altitude records, but to test improvements in motive power and control...
...already formed in a normal nucleus, but are created somehow when an energetic particle smashes into the unknown but enormously powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control of the force. This may lead in the direction of a vastly better source of atomic energy than the fission of uranium...