Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
...certificate of origin" they could not be shipped. To get the certificate, he had to make several trips to his local chamber of commerce. The chamber needed two more copies of the original bill, which also had to be registered at the registration office and visaed by the price control office...
Dutifully Covre made the rounds again, endured the usual waits and misunderstandings with minor officialdom. Returning one day from a five-hour wait at the price control office, he found angry customers waiting at his shop. He had never kept anyone waiting before. The customers canceled several orders...
...days later, Covre was called up by the price control board. His original applications had been mislaid. Would he make out two more? When he came back the next day with two copies, officials told him that a new regulation insisted on four. He must also bring price lists of some of his competitors to prove that his prices were not exorbitant (he was asking only $70 for both tables...
...inspired revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...