Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subscribe to TIME have been equally complicated. In some instances, the subscriber has had to go to his bank and stand in line for a magazine application subscription form of some 100-odd questions, in sextuplicate. Having filled it out, he then had to take it to the exchange control authorities who might take from a week to six months to affirm or deny it. If his request were granted, he again had to go to his bank for a dollar draft to send to us. To overcome this delay, 23 banks and offices throughout the world are presently acting...
Three-Way Attack. Then the President switched themes. He proposed an assault on the inflationary spiral from three sides. To relieve the inflationary pressure of too much loose cash, he asked that consumer credit controls (abandoned Nov. 1) be restored, that speculation on the commodity exchanges be limited, and that savings be increased. To channel scarce goods into essential uses, he wanted authority to control inventories and to allocate such essentials as steel and grain...
...Defense. The President left many an unanswered question. Which powers would be used immediately, and which ones later? Might not price ceilings on some items turn out to be price floors? Was it possible to control just a part of the nation's economy? The President had said he wanted "selective" controls. But the manufacturers or retailers whose products were "selected" could, and would, with equal justification, call them discriminatory...
Other testimony made Meyers' spot hotter. An anonymous letter dated 1945 (which the A.A.F. had managed to "lose" in the files) charged that for ten years Meyers had made a practice of buying stock in companies as soon as he got their bids on contracts, that he held control of a Cleveland company which was buying large amounts of Air Corps supplies...
...football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow returned form the Navy to assume control over Harvard football fortunes a year and a half ago, he feels that he has witnessed what amounts to the industrial revolution of the game...