Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited price control and rationing should be imposed by Congress if such extreme measures become necessary, they said...
Normal winter increments in Widener reading room thievery were reported "under control" yesterday by John E. Shea, superintendent of the stack, as he pointed to a long-run reduction of felony over the past five years...
...construction. Cowperwood--his business and his philanderings--occupies the stage at all times; hence there is none of the diffusion of energy that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark." Until his death, Cowperwood carries the novel, and although his machinations with the control of the London "underground" approach fantasy, the weight of his personality inevitably overrides the reader's doubts. It is this same brutal personal force which stands Cowperwood by himself as the most suavely terrifying example of the business type in American literature...
...President went further, He made the very logical connection between European aid and inflation, and, taking his political future in his hand, asked that measures be taken to curb runaway prices. Price control or allocation have never been popular in this country, particularly with Congressmen. Left to itself, the legislature would be most reluctant even to consider such an issue. By the very nature of its composition a Congress made up of locally elected individuals has little to gain and much to lose by raising controversial problems. Any effective solution is going to antagonize a sizeable group of voters...
...manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...