Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transfer of control of West Berlin to the West German government was proposed by Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of Government, at a conference Saturday sponsored by the University of New Hampshire...
Solvency & Syllables. With stability finally assured, Hawaii's vigorous culture sank new roots. In the New Deal days came the rise of unionism and of Red-lining Harry Bridges, who won control of Hawaii's longshoremen, pineapple and sugar workers. Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry...
Late one night last week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket...
Sooner or later, the situation in Iraq was bound to explode. All the inflammatory ingredients were there: increasing Communist control of the streets, continuing dissatisfaction in the country, restlessness in the army over the course Iraqi Soldier-Dictator Karim Kassem was taking. Last week the explosion came-and it was premature...
Jorge Alessandri, Chile's industrialist-President, is determined to run his country on the same hardheaded business principles that he formerly used to run its prosperous paper monopoly. Last week a broadside bill giving Alessandri absolute control of Chile's economy for one year sailed through the Senate and headed back to the Chamber of Deputies for approval of its Senate-added amendments...