Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Just before 11 p.m. he reported on course over Battle Creek, Mich.; a quarter-hour later, when he was starting across Lake Michigan into the storm, he asked air traffic control for permission to drop a thousand feet from his assigned 3,500-ft. altitude. CAA said no, there was too much traffic already running at the lower level. Neither Pilot Lind nor the 57 others aboard was ever heard from again...
...Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...
...shiftless cheat with toplofty schemes, Widmark sets out to get control of London wrestling. He crosses up several minor characters and every major one, including his girl (Gene Tierney). Then he crosses himself up. Duped by Widmark, his partner (Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko) dies after an agonizingly filmed grudge fight with Wrestler Mike Mazurki. The dead man's avenging son sets the whale city's underworld on Widmark's heels in an overlong, anticlimactic chase...
...machines. Said C.E.D.: "The managers of 100 years ago [could not] administer enterprises ... as large as those in modern industry . . ." To run the huge new enterprises, corporations had perfected a vast system of management, run by staff and line officers, in turn guided by technical men-in effect, decentralized control of decentralized operations. The vast mechanization had been made possible by investing an average of 10% of the net U.S. product each year in new plants, equipment and inventories...
...Hydrocol was more than matched by $21.5 million in new private capital, Capehart snapped: "I don't care whether the name is Smith, Jones or Gabrielson. They ought to practice what they preach. Do they believe in the free enterprise system? Or do they believe in Government control and interference...