Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapter of the National Aeronautical Association of the United States. In a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Lucke discussed the possibility of a subsidy to commercial aviation from Congress, the comparative value of aeroplanes and dirigibles, and the plan of establishing a national Air Department for the control and operation of army, naval, postal, and civilian flying...
...costs a great deal and there is not a large supply. During the war the German Zeppelins were unsuccessful, practically all of them being wrecked in storms, while since 1918 no great advance in lighter-than-air aircraft has been made. With its much greater speed and ease of control and maneuver, the possibilities of the aeroplane seem to me to be much greater than those of the dirigible, though the lighter-than-air vessel will have its uses...
...staff of the Montreal Gazette at the age of 18, and at 21, with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area...
...Hoover. The speech most quoted by the press was delivered by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who particularly stressed the necessity of preserving the American spirit of private initiative, and warned his hearers against the extension of governmental control over business. Mr. Hoover had no fears that, owing to our huge stock of gold, the current trade boom would end in inflation. He did, however, urge that coal be stored now to lighten the transportation problem next fall and winter...
Says Mr. Hearst's San Francisco Examiner: " The real power in Washington today is J. P. Morgan. In foreign affairs, he is the perpetual President of the United States. Never chosen by the people, he through his emissaries has controlled nevertheless two Administrations. And for their own advantage, he and his associates and financial allies are preparing to control a third Administration...