Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved $3 to $7 billion...
...Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...
...busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have "an A-2 priority." They will continue to have a secondary rating until there is international agreement on control of atomic activities. For the present, "our principal job on the commission is to provide bombs, and I am afraid it will be for a long time...
...formula provided by the steel institute. Even though cheaper truck or water transportation might actually be used, the formula allegedly bases delivery prices on all-rail freight and assesses arbitrary "switching charges." The result, said FTC, is the same as if "all mills were under one ownership and control...
...Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The C. & O.'s record for average freight train speed is nearly one-tenth below the [national] average." The cynical also thought they could discern a bid for public sympathy in Bob Young's imminent proxy battle for control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...