Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What if a man strive for the good that is enduring but does not succeed? What if his efforts are frustrated by his own mistakes or by circumstances beyond his control? St. Paul does not speak of this. He says that if any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. The man of whom he says this is one who has done a perishable work. How about him who seeks to build solidly but falls? The work that he has not done is left undone...
...That from 12 to 18 subsidiary corporations be created under the Emergency Fleet Corporation, each to operate a route and control the good-will and terminal facilities, assets of increasing value to the Government...
...Nations' Health Committee concluded its sixth session at Paris. The following business was discussed: plan for setting up a permanent health organization, investigation of cancer mortality, epidemilogical intelligence service, plans for fighting malaria on an international scale, Dutch plan to simplify port sanitary regulations, convention for sanitary control of inland waterways...
...second was an attempt to fly to Washington. The little machine, only 400 pounds in weight, ran into a storm, got out of control, and landed in a tree top near Paulsboro, N. J. Georges Barbot was slightly injured, the machine was wrecked. This was not all. Curio hunters stripped the aeroplane of engine, instruments and wings. With this inexcusable act of vandalism went Barbot's chances of repairing his flivver. Undaunted, however, he plans to build another and renew his attempts...
...least as completely under the control and regulation of the Government in each and every respect as the Inter-State railways are now put. . . . Our prime object must be to have the regulation accomplished by continuous administrative action and not by necessarily intermittent law suits...