Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stabilize" wages; control rents...
...week's end, only one situation in China seemed no worse (and perhaps somewhat better) than usual: in Shanghai, the economic police held the currency black market in control by arresting illegal exchange operators...
...midweek the pressure was so great that the government had to do something. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced the remedy: a partial return of price controls. There would be price ceilings on meats, to be fixed in a week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...
...week's end, Britain's Foreign and Home Offices, Canada House in London and the British Control Commission in Germany were all busy looking for suspects. One official guessed that before the investigation ended it might become "one of the biggest things we have handled for years." So far, at least 40 D.P.s were thought to have entered Canada by the phony passport route. As for the seven arrested in Toronto, their future was up to Ottawa's immigration authorities. Toronto Rabbi David Monson was pleading their case. Said he: "These people aren't criminals...
Charging that science and industry are "almost completely" under military control, the report argued that "the fear of a possible enemy plays too big a role in the minds of military...