Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiments are conducted at the Mid-Asiatic University at remote and romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...
...refusing to lend money on behalf of corporations. The corporations, for example, might lend their money directly, ignoring the banks. Or they might start a bank of their own. There seemed, last week, a number of ways by which the money market might be taken out of the control of the Federal Reserve and of its member banks...
...Jean Philippe Worth succeeded his father in 1895, carried on the aristocratic traditions of the House. He still comes to the Rue de la Paix to serve the most exalted personages, but his two nephews, Jacques and Jean Charles, have active control of the business, the one as business manager, the other as head designer. The House of Worth remains the arbiter of the most elegant fashions. There go the women of upper French society for their robes de grande soirée. There goes the prospective bride for her wedding gown...
...sign the new agreement. The agreement was a list of exceptions. It specified a few remaining articles of commerce which it was agreed might still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...
Temperature, tinfoil. Into the merging pot were thrown two companies making devices to control temperature (Robert Shaw Thermostat Co., Fulton Sylphon Co.). two companies producing tinfoil (U. S. Foil Co., Beechnut Foil Co.). Reynolds Metal Co. emerged...