Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards contained such Fordisms as "A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!" and "If you go into a union they have got you--but what have you got?" When washed and sifted, the opinions claim that New York financial interests control labor as well as the managers of industry, that union workers must pay for their jobs, that independent competition is essential to business improvements and higher wages, and that the Wagner Act is an iron collar upon the neck of labor...
Though probably no fairer and more farsighted employer lives in America, Mr. Ford does not embrace leftist viewpoints. His philosophy is that of the small business man on a large scale; only over his dead body would he permit the abolition of competition and the control of industry by either the government or Wall Street or even labor. It might well be his ideal for business to control the others. Likewise, it would appear that he hates the pillars of the Republican party as much as he detests most of the New Deal policies...
...student driver usually has perfect control of his car," said the Judge, "but the way he drives scares a lot of other materials into accidents...
...There are politicians, some in the Senate, I have heard, who think that they may come into power like that of the European dictators. . . . One man, I have been told by personal friends, who owns nearly a billion dollars, is ready to support such a program and, of course, control...
...made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price for control of Alleghany Corp. ($6,375,000) was made up by a promissory note for $2,375,000, payable in two years and secured by 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany common, last week selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $4 per share...