Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civilized, are this year less natural and rugged in their charms, more universal in appeal. What is tuneful is combined with what is funny, what is stimulating is added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic and only in one tedious scene did it master him completely. This was when a group of nuns were used as the background for a rendering of Ave Maria...
Crackers, Cookies. National Biscuit Co., world's largest biscuit makers, announced that plans were virtually completed for it to acquire control of Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd., biggest makers of crackers, cookies, cakes and puddings in Canada. Basis of the deal: one share of National Biscuit common stock for two shares of Christie, Brown common...
German steel makers, last week, had cause to smile at reports, emanating from the U. S., of a proposed combine to control U. S. iron and steel exports...
...importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast wealth to the kingdom of France...
Followed a century of terrific political upheaval. Tortures and carnage culminated in the massacre of 1915 which seemed to justify American intervention. For in spite of unrest, foreign financial investments had reached proportions requiring protection. America took control first of the customs, then of national finance, and virtually all other administration, with "no object in view except to insure . . . firm government by the Haitian people...