Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found sitting disconsolately by the roadside waiting for someone to rescue him. Mostly, his car works well - because Angélica drives. She pilots it skillfully through traffic while he sits beside her explaining the fundamental principles of a motor car, two or three new ideas for traffic control, how landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window of a speeding automobile. She sees to it that when he is painting a mural he actually gets to the wall and does not tarry somewhere along Juárez in an interesting discussion of the latest method of crime...
...balloting in the Houses would be under the control of a specified member of the House Committee, who would be responsible to the overall Council-appointed chairman...
...State Department policy lines. It is the first and crucial test of Secretary Marshall's plan to dehydrate world communism. If a rightist government can be made to stick and operate efficiently in a country that traditionally mixes its politics with its wine, then the prospects for successful remote control of other countries such as Italy look very bright...
...into $1.2 paper millions. They would also net about $380,000 in underwriting fees and $200,000 for selling the bonds, bringing their total profit to $1,808,125. Most important, the original investors still kept at least 22.8% of the stock, which in most companies amounts to effective control...
Erleigh bought control of the New Union Goldfields Ltd., fixed his attention on the undeveloped Orange Free State, where he bought hundreds of leases and options on mining lands, including the fabulous Rooder and Main Reef Mines. The big money rolled in when other gold houses awoke to the richness of the Free State deposits and had to lease from Erleigh (TIME, April 29, 1946). Erleigh built up a South African empire of 152 companies-gold mines, diamond fields, coal mines, rubber factories, hotels and cinemas-valued at some...