Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, How to control the cinema industry as effectively as the press has long been a problem for German Nazis. First system tried, whereby the industry got suggestions from the Government, submitted to a rigorous censorship, proved unsuccessful. Last winter, two of Germany's major producing companies, Tobis and Bavarian Films, were quietly acquired by Government-subsidized syndicates. Last week, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who fortnight ago warned producers that if they did not pay better heed to suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control...
Stepping forth from a routine Washington meeting with the heads of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, Mr. Eccles issued a resounding statement "to correct erroneous interpretations" of his ideas on how to control inflation. It is no secret that Chairman Eccles is alarmed by the current trend of Recovery, particularly the dizzy rise in commodity prices. And after a visit to the White House last fortnight, the Government bond market broke wide-open (TIME, March 22). Hence, the natural assumption last week was that the Reserve Board might be ready to let interest rates seek a higher level. Said...
Periodically since the War, rubber-minded Britons have been concerned about their position as the world's big caoutchouc-keepers.* Their first attempt to control production failed miserably in 1928, partly because the Dutch were not in on it, partly because the price of rubber was stretched to a fantastic...
...story behind that reduction is the story of Francis Davis' stewardship of U. S. for the past eight years. In 1927 the du Fonts bought control of U. S. Rubber, plucked Francis Davis from the presidency of a du Pont subsidiary (Viscoloid), told him to salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven...
...take continuous observations over long periods of time in order to obtain representative records. This is difficult to accomplish by manual means except at prohibitive cost. For this reason, Dr. H. R. Mimno of the Graduate School of Engineering, developed special automatic devices to be used for the control of the Cruft Laboratory ionosphere research station. By means of these devices, records can be obtained without the attendance of an operator...