Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three biggest bones of contention between the Administration and Congress-Tax Reduction, Muscle Shoals, Farm Relief-appeared more contentious than ever and the prospect of three vetoes increased. Also, the House passed a far smaller Navy bill than the Administration had asked. Also, the Senate passed a Flood Control measure in which local contributions, as urged by the President, were only "recognized in principle," not levied in fact...
...Passed, 70 to 0, a Flood Control bill (see below); sent it to the House...
...last week the Senators wended out of their chamber tingling all over with virtue and generosity. To their own and many another person's great surprise they had passed a Flood Control bill; passed it so suddenly that they had had to make their speeches on it after voting instead of before; passed it 70 to 0, moreover, so that only a "love feast" attended the event, without partisanship...
...general, the new plane duplicates the old. It will have slight changes in design: larger fin, larger rudder, larger stabilizer, to insure improved control. Special lights will ease night flying. Like modern automobiles, it will have class as well as comfort: silk mohair upholstery with deep-cushioned chairs...
...international communication the U. S. ought to be supreme." So said Electric Tycoon Owen D. Young last week. At the same time came news of a British merger, to control more than half of all the miles of cables in the world. But also last week, a great U. S. communication merger took place and the U. S. public was invited to inspect a new power in U. S. business. His name is Sosthenes Behn...