Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to physical equipment, the Forest has received from a number of landowners in Petersham a gift of a portable gasoline pumping engine with nearly a mile of hose. This will facilitate the control of possible forest fires and may prove helpful in the protection of our buildings
...seven States in the Colorado Basin agree that it would be advantageous to obtain Federal development and control of their common natural resource. But California, a boom state, presses for immediate action. And Arizona, slow-growing, temporizes to protect its future...
...been a so-so session of Congress. President Coolidge congratulated both houses with a warmth which was surprising in view of the lesions Congress had caused in the Administration's program. Congress had far overshot the Coolidge ideas on farm-relief and flood control; overcut the Mellon idea of tax reduction; left stranded the Wilbur "Big Navy"; appropriated some 500 millions beyond the Budget; retained Muscle Shoals instead of disposing of it as Mr. Coolidge urged...
...Amelia Earhart (pronounced airheart), who has studied medicine and science at Columbia University, who has flown 500 solo hours, who has owned two planes, who is a professional social worker when not an aviatrix. She planned to control the plane at least part of the time on "the way to England...
Then decision: Chrysler to take financial control of Dodge Bros, by a trading of stocks; Dodge Bros, and Chrysler to continue separately as motor vehicle makers; Walter Percy Chrysler to be chairman of the directors of the combination; Clarence Dillon to be chairman of the directors' finance committee; Edward G. WTilmer to be president. Mr. Wilmer, by training a lawyer, has been Dodge Bros, president since Clarence Dillon took control in 1925. Mr. Dillon made Mr. Wilmer a Dillon-Read partner. He is a superb executive, the sort of man Mr. Chrysler himself is, except that Mr. Chrysler...