Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two kinds of British businessmen. One is afraid that U. S. investors will buy control of British firms, bulwarks of the Empire. Therefore he harries the British Government to legislate against "dollar penetration...
...first character on the stage, a Stevens undergraduate, depicted a Neanderthal type of man. He loped apelike across the stage on naked 20th Century legs. He was awed by the forces of Nature until he discovered weapons, tools. Toward the end of this section "Control," a child, appeared to befriend the undergraduate. "Control" then stepped gingerly to the front of the stage and delivered himself of a speech to the effect that without tools man is nothing, with them he is everything...
...emergence of the mechanical engineer and some of his inventions. Toward the end this act took on the gala aspect of a football game as a parade of students appeared bearing banners with the names of various engineering schools. After a short stretch showing how the society was founded "Control," now almost full grown, again popped to the front of the stage, said: ". . . Engineering . . . has been one of the means . . . by which civilization has advanced...
Third Section, "The Age of Electricity," was introduced with a flashing of lights. Then came a display of inventions. Then "Control," now a lusty, up and coming young man, stepped once more to the front of the stage to say: "I am the engineer. . . . I control, I convert. I do not create...
...biggest gushers ever blown in, No. 1 Mary Sudik, located in the Oklahoma City field. Last fortnight it started as a mammoth gasser flowing at the rate of 200,000,000 cubic feet a day. Slowly the gas turned to oil which shot skyward completely out of control, running at the rate of more than 2,000 barrels an hour. After long labor engineers succeeded in clamping a master gate valve on the well, only to see the connections ripped apart, tossed into the air. A second attempt, however, was successful. Mary Sudik was declared conquered...