Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...contained a directive to the White House to do what Congress refused to do itself-cut non-defense items by $550 million. It provided a small sop to congressional consciences by carving $77 million off the $763 million pork items (rivers, harbors, flood control) and directing that none of these projects should be undertaken unless they were ready for completion, or contributed to the war effort...
...Congressman Rich grumped that the House ought to have its head examined, his weary colleagues still faced a mountain of work before they could go home and see to their political fences. On the agenda and still to be voted: the new defense appropriations, wage, price and production control bill, being written and rewritten by another little group of perspiring Senators and Representatives in joint committee; a tax bill, which will fall far short of meeting the new expenditures; a universal military-training bill; a bill to clamp down on free-running Communists in the once free & easy...
...Force Base (Neb.), mid-continent headquarters of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command, an operations control officer made a routine notation in his log. Another night's work was done, another major U.S. city had been theoretically demolished by the U.S.'s mightiest atom-bomb carrier. More important, another weary plane crew had flown through much the same kind of weather over precisely the same number of mile it would have taken to deliver the bomb to the industrial heart of Russia...
Among the guns and fire-control apparatus of the after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs...
...Chong discovered what Michaelis' men knew-the colonel was a hard man to scare. In the face of Kim's enveloping move, Mike sat tight and blasted away with his expertly placed artillery. He had some bad moments when his artillery fire control center, directing four batteries, suffered a direct mortar hit which killed his best fire control personnel. But under Mike Michaelis' skillful direction the batteries continued to fire...