Word: controls
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...bias, no human being is without it, and the bias of TIME is to be inferred from the associations of its owners as well as its choice and treatment of news matter. The only assurance of a minimum of bias is in the editorial control of a superior judicial mind animated with zeal for ideals set forth by your advertisements...
...settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling voice in Government policy towards commercial aviation. Last week a civil committee, appointed by him without anyone's urging and long before Colonel Mitchell stirred up the President's Air Craft Inquiry Board, reported on commercial aviation, recommending government encouragement but no subsidies...
Charles Phelps Taft II,* 28, presided at the meeting with that deft assured despatch which characterized his undergraduate activities at Yale. In him the 11,000 delegates present found an earnest layman lawyer from Cincinnati, well fitted to guide in debate the laymen who control the destinies of a great Christian society. It was decided, without hair splitting or theological wrangling, that henceforth non-church members may vote in the councils of the Y. M. C. A. Previously all voting members had to belong to an evangelical church...
...famous dispatch by the Secretary of the Treasury, General John A. Dix, Which contained the direction: 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the shot', was transmitted on the evening of January 15, 1861, for the purpose of retaining under the control of the Federal government the United State Coast Guard cutter 'Robert McLelland', then in the port of New Orleans...
Last week the Pere Marquette Railroad announced successful experiments with an automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each...