Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Raoul Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first...
Designers of landing systems hope that most of the disadvantages can be eliminated by the automatic pilot. Already the autopilot flies many airliners on long, boring hops, keeping them on course by its own gyroscopic control of the aircraft. It responds more promptly than a human pilot. Instrument men believe that it could be made to listen for electronic orders and follow them down to the ground...
Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, WHO's director general, has no notion that his organization can ever become a worldwide health department. Instead, he would like it to set a good example. (In Greece it did an outstanding job of malaria control, and the example inspired scores of Greeks to take training in malariology.) Every day WHO headquarters in Geneva sends out word of outbreaks of the five "treaty diseases" (plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox and yellow fever) against which quarantine officials must be alert. This work is more than ever important now that air travelers can spread a plague halfway...
...companies, who had championed oil-rich Senator Robert Kerr's bill for all they were worth, marshaled some potent arguments on their side. Despite all the political uproar, they pointed out that the bill, which exempts "independent" gas producers from the price-fixing control of the Federal Power Commission, merely repeats and clarifies a previous congressional action. The 1938 Natural Gas Act, in their opinion, had specifically exempted the independents (i.e., those gas producers and gatherers not affiliated with interstate pipeline companies) from FPC's jurisdiction. The U.S. Supreme Court had disagreed in 1947, when it ordered Louisiana...
Capped Wells. Phillips and the other oil companies feared the threat to fix their gas prices, but what they feared more was that FPC would use the authority it won over gas as a lever to try to declare the whole oil industry a public utility-and thus control oil prices and profits also. (Since gas is a byproduct of oil development, the big oil companies are also big gas producers.) The result was that many of the big producers refused to sell gas to the interstate pipelines. They pumped the gas back into the ground, sold it only within...