Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Flotsam, Jetsam. He had not seen anything yet. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle with special interests to serve went to work on the Spence bill. They amended it to weaken it; they amended it to strengthen it. The House agreed to make price controls mandatory if the cost-of-living index went up 5% above the level of June 15 (food prices had already gone up 2% to 3%); the White House shuddered at such a notion. Other amendments got in the bill: to exempt radio, television, periodicals and insurance underwriters from price control; to chop...
...admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...warlike load, the huge plane ate up most of the mile-and-a-half Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base runway before she was airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing...
...they soon found what the island had in store for them. When the supporting Navy took a pasting in the Battle of Savo Island and went off to lick its wounds, the 1st was left alone on Guadalcanal with the Japanese, the jungle, malaria, dysentery, fungus disease. In control of the sea and air, the Japanese constantly reinforced their positions, managed to put 40,000 men on the island against the marines' 10,000. The 1st suffered hundreds of air raids and a devastating shelling from Japanese battleships and cruisers. One of Guadalcanal's heroes was Colonel Merritt...
...pass, some overeager G.I.s opened fire, instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been shattered...