Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could charge interstate pipeline operators for gas. Still not too sure of its authority, FPC had not yet clamped on price regulation. But so-called "independent" producers* lived in dread of the day when FPC would move in. The Kerr bill would specifically exempt gas producers from such FPC control...
...this grim list, even the French would pick alternative No. 1, if they were forced to face the realistic choice. It would then be possible to settle down to the highly necessary discussion of how to control a rearmed Germany. But until that point was reached, all maneuvers for the curbing of Germany-and all plans for the defense of Western Europe-were just committee-room talk...
...generals to make room for its own. Result: the generals are playing politics and the army is demoralized. Although the basic economy of the country has made a fine recovery, French government finances are muddled. Ossified bureaucracy stifles the national life; civil servants and other pressure groups control the national budget...
Died. Recep Peker, 62, "strong man" follower of Kemal Ataturk in the 1923 founding of the Turkish Republic, who as Turkish Premier in 1946 helped block the Russian bid for joint control of the Dardanelles; in Istanbul...
...Flaiano has found Africa a fertile field in which to cultivate an existentialist viewpoint. The unnamed lieutenant who narrates The Short Cut feels that he was the victim of events; even his murder of the Ethiopian girl seemed a deed to which he was driven by forces beyond his control. But his conscience worked against him, carried him into a feverish world where he became convinced that his victim had given him leprosy. When his careful inquiries about the disease aroused a doctor's suspicions, he took off into the bush again, fearing the army would clap him into...