Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation which would allocate funds enabling senior R.O.T.C. men to obtain solo hours at private flying schools, Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...
...T.U.C. (Trade Union Congress) who saw their Socialist dream of high wages and short hours slipping away in Britain's crisis. The big, unpleasant question, posed by the Government, was this: Can there be real "planned economy" unless the Government has the power to plan and control labor...
...resolution would actually give the Labor Government control of the coal miners who could make or break Britain. Last week, at the peak of the wildcat coal strike that started at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire, 70,000 miners were out of the pits. Already the strike had cost Britain 400,000 tons of precious coal. When the National Coal Board asked Grimethorpe miners to increase their daily stint (from digging 21 feet of coal daily to 23 feet) the strike began...
...restriction died quietly when the Department of Commerce removed the restrictions on the use of natural rubber for some 30,000 industrial products. Unaffected by the new ruling were automobile tires and tubes, whose natural-rubber content will continue to be fixed (23% for pleasure cars). By maintaining its control over the automobile industry's rubber supply, which accounts for 72% of U.S. rubber consumption, the Department hopes to keep at least part of the U.S. synthetic rubber industry operating...
...Geiger counters (to determine the possible presence of radioactivity) and usually shielded by a special speakers' stand which, when a button was pressed, threw up a sheet of armored steel. Says Agent Reilly: "I lived in horror of the day an Agent would accidentally press the remote control button and F.D.R. would find himself talking to a piece of steel where a moment before he had been addressing thousands of people. He wouldn't have been amused; there were very few things F.D.R. enjoyed more than talking to a large crowd...