Word: steering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elected President in March, General Peñaranda, no politician, has done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher...
housewives swing their washing high over city courtyards, that U.S. farmers use four wheels instead of two for their wagons. Darrel Austin's stalking Puma was a popular favorite. Bullring patrons fancied Fletcher Martin's rousing Embrace-a cowboy being tossed by a steer...
...liberty-loving people throughout the world." Up to that moment Britain's war, through Joe's rosy, red-rimmed binoculars, had been just another imperialistic bloodletting, and to hell with it. But now there was a Red star in the heavens for N.M.U.'s sailors to steer...
...than aluminum bruises on the U.S. economic body. To the list of metals already under mandatory Government control (aluminum, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, ferrotungsten) Ed Stettinius added copper, may soon have to add zinc and other metals now under partial control. He also warned manufacturers looking for substitutes to steer clear of other essentials to defense. At the same time Franklin Roosevelt appointed Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, who talked of gasless Sundays, Government tsar of the oil industry...
...some eight years these New Dealers have been trying to steer the U.S. from capitalism to a managerial society. Some of their methods: 1) doubling government expenditures in five years; 2) making agriculture wholly dependent on state subsidy and control; 3) moving toward state control of foreign trade; 4) shrinking private control over capital funds by acts governing the issuance of and trading in securities; 5) divorcing money from its metallic base, making it a currency managed by the state; 6) running up annual deficits of billions of dollars, while using the national debt as an instrument of managerial social...