Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers was the only unqualified success...
...Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions. Although he is one of Italy's outstanding apostles of unfettered free enterprise, Einaudi has not hesitated to fight inflation with hard-handed governmental control where he thought it was needed...
Nevertheless, some businessmen worried over the long-range dangers of the program. In making loans to businesses through the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, there was grave danger that the government might gain control of so many companies that Free-Trader Einaudi would find he had no course but to set up a state-controlled economy. In this same fashion, Mussolini's state-run holding company (Istituto di Ricostruzione Industriale) had gained control of an enormous part of the economy...
...Holman said he did not favor price increases "at the present time." But the chances looked pretty good that many other companies would raise both crude and product prices even though industry profits are running 67% better than last year. Any such increase would step up pressure for price control and rationing of oil products...
Even before Sun acted, Acting Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman had called for price control and rationing of oil, along with coal. Socony-Vacuum was already rationing its East Coast dealers, and last week Standard Oil of Kentucky did the same for its 3,000 Alabama dealers. But the industry was still on the price spot...