Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical materials; e.g., halting the use of steel for beer cans. Over that measure hangs the threat of a black market. Another idea is to give the Government the authority to step into the nation's farms and set aside grain for overseas shipment. That expedient will not control grain prices unless the Government also fixes the price at which the producers must sell...
...measures as part of the same program. The two are closely connected, as grants of credit and goods to Europe will both reduce the amount of commodities available for purchase on the home market and increase the number of bidders for American products; while if inflation gets out of control America will experience a crisis which will render it unable to give foreign aid on any appreciable scale. A Republican Congress, however, can hardly be expected to act on such an hypothesis...
Congressional leaders in fact consider the special session as little more than an early opening of the regular session, and as such a forum for Presidential aspirants. Any vote-getting issue will be grist for the mill. In such an atmosphere unpopular items like allocation or price control will be assiduously avoided. The President's program is likely to get lost in the rush...
Although his aid to education bill is already on the calendar for the '48 Congress, Taft guesses that other items in the Republican social legislation program will wait until the GOP gains control of the Executive Branch which he expects...
...very woodenness of the plot manages to increase this effect of mellow antiquity. Take Gaylord Ravenal, for instance. He is a Hero in Distress who, due to forces beyond his control, fails to support his Beloved Wife. He leaves her because he Loves her Truly. Finally, both of them Old and Gray, they Reunite on the Spot of their First Meeting. In order to communicate fully the spirit of the showboat era; it is almost necessary to have such a combination of stuffiness and conventionality. Ravenal is a stereotype of an age that took its stereotypes seriously. Consequently, although...