Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Four Wheel Hydraulic Brake Corp. was organized in 1920 at Detroit. Duesenberg was the first licensee to use this company's design for hydraulic control of external braking bands...
...with the strikers, who wanted their work-week reduced from 48 to 40 hours, and $2.75 a week more for it. The landlords chatted with each other. They claimed that they were going broke, that they could not afford any added expenses unless there was an end to rent control. Their stand endeared them to neither the 12,000 strikers nor the tenants...
...Jordan had no intention of giving up the large chunk of eastern Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying the conquered territory with the rest...
...British government, which subsidizes Abdullah's army, promptly gave public blessing to the annexation. The blessing was qualified only by a dutiful reminder that control of Jerusalem was supposed to be a matter for final decision by the United Nations. At the same time Britain announced her decision to grant full recognition to Israel, whose government had taken a live & let live attitude toward Abdullah...
...fined each skipper 5,000 pesos ($580). The shrimpers protested the fine and insisted that they were at least ten miles offshore. The Mexicans said that they had no intention of keeping Americans from fishing off their coast, but wished only to keep foreign shrimp boats under license and control...