Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance: The Navy is said to have developed a secret of gunnery control which makes for long-range accuracy and thus assures the continued building of super-dreadnaughts with big guns. Said Capt. William Cluverius, in command of the West Virginia: "It was the finest material performance yet recorded in guns, planes and machinery. All officers are convinced this firing off Cuba will exercise a profound effect on the naval development of all nations...
...next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none of the virtues of Prohibition. It would be bureaucracy and bureaucracy-drunk! . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler...
...these things Dr. Knowles would accomplish by means of a relay. A relay is an electromagnetic device in which the opening or closing of a circuit causes the opening or closing of a more powerful circuit. The ordinary relay will control a current only 10,000 times greater than the current that controls it. Dr. Knowles's new relay?a tube type, containing neon or argon gas?would control a current about 100,000,000 times as great as its controlling current. Photoelectrically adjusted, it could be operated by passing shadows...
Hyde, young attorney of the Cleveland firm, Thompson, Hine & Flory, which represents many dissatisfied Goodyear stockholders who hope to overthrow the present control of the company...
From the West comes the news that the student government body of the University of Oregon seeks to control the editorial policy of the Oregon Emerald, the university daily. This move against the freedom of the Emerald is an outgrowth of editorial criticism directed against the A. S. U. O., whose retaliatory attack takes the form of a proposed undergraduate publications board dominated by the associated students' president. The new board of censorship would pass judgment on all editorial policies of the Emerald, and shelter its sponsor from unwelcome criticism...