Word: controls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Admittedly, one of the gravest flaws in the U. S. Government since Andrew Jackson has been the system whereby the victorious political party always assumes control of Government jobs. Daringly, the Reorganization Plan struck at this by giving the President power to "cover into" the classified civil service any minor office he wished, and to create, instead of the present three-man bipartisan Civil Service Commission which can be changed at the will of the President, a single Administrator, to be appointed by the President with the Senate's approval, for 15 years. The Administrator would be specifically delegated...
...report recommended a minimum of 15 foot-candles for classrooms and offices, and a photoelectric control to turn on lights when illumination falls below the minimum. Because glare is as harmful as dimness, it also advised that glossy finish on furniture and glass tops on tables be eliminated, that pictures be varnished instead of glassed, that desks be shaded from the sun, that indirect lighting be used...
...July he decided to put into a voting trust his 95% stock control of American Newspapers, Inc., top holding company in the bewildering Hearst corporative pyramid. In September Lawyer Clarence John Shearn was given full and irrevocable power to vote Mr. Hearst's stock for ten years. Mr. Hearst retained only his right to earnings and editorial control over 19 Hearst daily newspapers and twelve magazines...
...then to shaggy, crusading Deputy Commissioner Judd Dewey, would list the following reasons for the notable success of his idea: 1) Primary tenet of the Brandeis economic faith is that efficiency decreases with size. Savings banks are small, decentralized. And of course their life insurance departments are controlled by the same State reserve laws that control all insurance companies. 2 ) Terms in most cases are more beneficial to the policyholders. Most old-line policies cannot be turned in for cash till after the third year and then there is a surrender charge. Savings bank policies can be turned in after...
...perform these complex functions, Republic's new mill relies chiefly on 1,420 electric motors, all of them so integrated and automatic that a few master switches control everything. To the charge that mills of this type reduce employment, Tom Girdler last week made the standard answer: "The number of men required to run the mill itself represents only a small fraction of the employment made possible by the mill...