Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans were quite happy. The break showed that prices could readjust themselves, and without the controls which G.O.P. leaders have consistently opposed. Even Bernard Baruch, who recently recommended far-reaching controls (TIME, Jan. 26), begged off from testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee until he had time for another look around. He wired Committee Chairman Charles Tobey: "There is evidence, superficial perhaps, but existing, that commodities show a tendency to soften. Were that to come about, the need for control would be less pressing...
Insistence that pure science must remain free from control by "practical" considerations was voiced by J. Robert' Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, as he, President Conant, and Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, addressed a Harvard Club of Boston hanquet last night celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Lawrence Scientific School...
Professor Friedrich declared that the bill "is not only worthless in combatting Comunism" but even contributes to the spread of the doctrine, by limiting the value of criticism levelled at it. This thought control, he declared, makes the bill pro-Communist...
...Control center of the computator is a 60-foot plastic wall, overspread with instruments, dials, and bulbs. Behind the panel lies 3000 square feet of steel framework, housing the multi-colored units which store and operate on the numbers...
Sloppiness and football floor work were the only startling factors in Lowell's 39 to 31 edging of Dudley. Neither team had much control of either the ball of the score in the wild contest...