Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly of a B29, had also reached altitudes never before penetrated by airplanes-up to 70,000 feet (previous record: 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by Colonel Mario Pezzi, an Italian...
...little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...
...into, Tulsa Oilman William Grove Skelly built one of the nation's best-integrated, best-run independents. Nevertheless, his Skelly Oil Co. almost went under in the lean-pursed '30s. Hard-hitting, fast-thinking Bill Skelly raised the cash to save the company, but he lost control to J. Paul Getty, sporty Los Angeles oilman and Manhattan hotel owner (the Pierre). Skelly, staying on as president of his company, a subsidiary of Getty's Mission Corp., in time became Mission's president also...
...control both companies, he formed (with Mexican backers) Telefonos de Mexico, S.A. To control that, along with his other Mexican interests, he and his associates formed a $20 million holding company, Corporacion Continental...
...Little? The only reason he signed the bill at all, the President wrote, was because it covered three of the ten points contained in the program he submitted to Congress in November: extended export controls, extended control over rail facilities, authority to promote increased farm production. These three measures, he said, "are needed now." But "they are of minor importance compared with . . . the key measures which are essential to an effective anti-inflation program." In particular, the President wanted stand-by authority for compulsory allocations, rationing and wage-price controls...