Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau to draft a program for extracting France from her financial difficulties by drastic measures of "exchange control" and "guided economy." Former Premier Leon Blum cracked: "I would laugh if it were the time to laugh!" For what Paul Marchandeau had not wanted the Blum Left to do, he now urged as a measure of the Centre...
...representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company, was to have himself declared the sovereign...
...Kelly approved of Billy Sunday, was a friend of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, engaged in frequent religious skirmishes with his fellow townsman, Unbeliever Henry Louis Mencken. For many years he crusaded against liquor, prostitution, Sunday movies, gambling, birth control...
...buying cars during the last four years, John Public thought it considered most important in order of preference: dependability, safety, operating economy, comfort, appearance, smoothness, ease of control, pickup, speed, first cost...
...wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive...