Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week things got rougher. When Government price control officials caved in to the pressure of soaring prices of imported grain and took ceilings off flour, bread prices promptly tripled. Mexico City bakery workers walked out. Bands of 20 to 25 men roamed the streets, smashed bakery windows, dumped bread, painted hambreador on store fronts; 250 of the city's 850 small bakeries were damaged...
...talks on atomic control and disarmament fail, what course will the Soviet Union take...
...exchanges, keenly aware of swelling congressional talk of more governmental control, voluntarily took a small step towards slowing down speculation. The Chicago Board of Trade ordered margins increased on a sliding scale. For every 10?-a-bushel increase in the price of grain futures, margins must, in effect, be increased an additional 5?. But the Board of Trade stuck to its contention that Government buying of grain for export was chiefly to blame for food prices, and not speculation...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
...affair at the Stadium, the issue was never in doubt in Medford Saturday when the Varsity soccer team steamrollered to its first victory of the season by the score of 7 to 0 against a hapless squad from Tufts. Counting goals in every period, the Crimson kept almost continuous control of the ball in successfully opening its 1947 season...