Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine. Any Russian entrenchment in northern Iran comes as an economic and strategic threat to the Anglo-American interests in nearby Arabia. Besides giving the Soviet Union sufficient oil to maintain the ambitions of the Red Army, the plan for twenty-five years of Russian exploitation would weaken Allied control of the Iranian government and weaken the entire Anglo-American position in the Middle East. The United States alternately prodded and soothed Iran's Premier Ghavam into refusing Russian demands for immediate action on the pact. An explosion of threats and ultimatums from Moscow was countered with the warning that...
...Unless they are stopped, the present methods of fighting communism and socialism by whipping up hysteria and invoking systems of thought control will give us a police state here. We cannot preserve and improve our system of democratic capitalism by undermining our high standard for human rights and civil liberties...
...appeared before ICC in Washington last week. He wanted permission for himself and Robert J. Bowman, president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, to sit on the New York Central's board of directors. Thus he could vote his 400,000 shares (6%) of Central stock and exercise working control of the road. As Young had been invited in by Central, he looked for no opposition from...
...would also, he said, end "banker control" of Central. How? asked ICC. "Why," said Young in surprise, "our very presence would relieve it." If he liked the girl enough, after going with her eight or nine years, said Young, he might later marry her by unifying the two roads. He painted the sad plight of Central, "the finest railroad property in the richest country in the world . . . being kicked around in The Street for virtually 10? on the dollar...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...