Word: controls
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Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light...
Established in 1907 in a handsome neoclassic building, the St. Louis City Art Museum was not detached from political control until 1911, when an independent Board of Control was set up and a special property tax of 2? on every $100 of assessed value was levied for museum maintenance. A recurrent impulse of St. Louis city administrations is to rescind this tax. When the cat controversy brought up such a proposal, the present Board of Estimate & Apportionment promptly recommended a reduction of the tax to if per $100 and the reinvestment of museum control in City Hall. Last week...
...shares Gulf Oil Corp. (control of whose 12.000,000 shares rests with the Mellons), worth...
...Hartford transmitter a fellow amateur 30 miles away in Springfield, he arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give up its Wartime control of radio, and later whenever commercial services tried to grab amateur wave lengths. A.R.R.L. President Maxim carried the fight to Washington, brought the amateurs back to the air, kept them there...
...Buckminster Fuller is a New Englander who looks like a businessman and talks like a prophet of the coming technological millennium. A Harvard alumnus, he decoded radio messages in the navy during the War, became a manufacturer of molds for reinforced concrete afterwards, and in 1927, when he lost control of his business, settled in Chicago slums for a year to work out his ideas of modern society...