Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to promote conservation irrigation and flood control on the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
...student, apparently hastening to assent to what seemed to be an implied order, unhooked his control stick, hurled it over, and grinned back...
...violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more to transform the American system of government from its age-old purpose of protecting life, liberty, and property into a scheme for social control and the regulation of personal conduct and personal relations...