Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew, he was saying. 'I can't control it. Let's bail...
...industrial structure from scratch while at the same time boosting farm output to feed an increasing population. To achieve a radical increase in farm products, he did not propose to introduce Khrushchev's costly peasant incentives. Instead, Mao has substituted Communism's cheapest incentives-fear and control...
...Control of the Ruble." But the real burden of Khrushchev's 38,000-word message is that Soviet collective farmers must improve their efficiency if the new plan is to be fulfilled. Khrushchev's touring experts had been shocked during their 1955 visit to Iowa to see what huge crop yields a relatively small number of U.S. farmers could obtain. In farm productivity, said Khrushchev, "our country is still seriously lagging behind the U.S." He cited some revealing figures of the number of man-hours required in the two countries to grow 220 lbs. of produce...
...five years, said Khrushchev, collective farmers had had it good because the state offered them fancy prices. But, he added, "the control of the ruble" works both ways, and now that the virgin lands are turning out bumper crops and the state can store some grain, the state will be able to buy "wherever it is cheaper." This year's decision to break up the state Motor Tractor Stations and sell their equipment to collectives, he said, "marks the beginning of a new stage in economic relations between the state and collective farms. Henceforth, the principle of free sale...
...Compton (enrollment: 4,800) taking a first-year psychology course need never face a flesh-and-blood lecturer, and 1,099 students in freshman algebra and English courses are film-fed most of the time. Their education is largely seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work right and that classes do not become disorderly. Students with questions to ask may make appointments with instructors...