Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another Progressive Party, led by Senator Robert ("Old Bob") La Follette and championing public control of railroads, power, and natural resources, polled nearly 5,000,000 popular votes, but captured only Wisconsin's 13 electoral votes. The Progressives temporarily displaced the Democrats as the second party in eleven Western states...
...Competition. After soaring speculation came the crash; British railways settled down to healthy competition. In World War I competing railways had to cooperate, under national control. Then Britain's 123 lines were amalgamated into four great groups (the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern). A mellow, golden age began for travelers on British trains. Unlike their U.S. counterpart, British railways have consistently made money from passengers, consequently gave them attentive service. British first-class compartments were among the most comfortable in the world. Dining cars offered deferential waiters, seats without queuing...
...interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest $300 million in the next two years...
Freedom v. Control. In one sense, the job that a free U.S. industry had done in 1947 was brightened by what the controlled economies of the world, notably Britain and Russia, had failed to do. Those who shuddered at the rise in U.S. prices-and thought that there was some painless magic in controls to bewitch inflation and the laws of economics-had only to look at Russia. There, what the London Times called the "baleful Bourbons of Muscovy" ruthlessly tried to end their high prices-and low production-simply by taking spending money away from the people...
...Barnes Bill, if passed, will be another step toward the political control of education, which is hateful to the American people and subversive to their concept of freedom.... It threatens the independence and originality of thought which have so long been a tradition in education," assorts the HTU statement...