Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide complete freedom in sexual relations to young children ("of course the children are fully instructed in birth control") is surely as definite a contribution to juvenile depravity as any overt...
There was no doubt that domineering, salt-crusted Patrick J. McHugh had tight control over Massachusetts' fishing fleet. The 4,200 members of his independent Atlantic Fishermen's Union manned practically every sizeable trawler, dragger and gill-netter that sailed out of New Bedford, Gloucester and Boston. The union had its own selling rooms in Gloucester and New-Bedford, and dictated who could and who could not buy there...
Observed a suave British officer of the North German Coal Control: "That would be an excellent bargain but we've not the food to give them...
...more mature. He had already been married once. His stepfather was Edward T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia socialite and financier. Jimmy had advanced ideas. He had thought up a "Synchronization Theory" which had something to do with the flow of money and goods. He also had ideas on birth control, libel laws, sterilization of defectives, boxing and politics...
Exile of Waste. By eliminating the fierce competition between neighboring leaseholders, unitization can reduce and control venting, actually step up production for a field as a whole. In numerous small fields, operators have voluntarily pooled their efforts and shared proportionately in the output. But for West Edmond, in which 32 companies and some 2,800 landowners are interested, it took a rigid law. The Oklahoma legislature passed the law in 1945, but hearings, arguments and appeals delayed its action until...