Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power and light, gas, water, telephones and street railways, reaching, with one or more of its services, 1,514 U. S. communities with a population of more than 6,000,000. Large Standardized communities include Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Louisville, Tacoma, San Diego, Stockton and San Francisco. Under the control of Henry M. Byllesby & Co., Chicago utility financing house, Standard rates as the largest U. S. electricity, gas and traction system...
Last week there came a realignment of Standard's controlling interest. Through a complicated rearrangement of Standard's financial structure, a group of capitalists headed by Harris, Forbes & Co. secured control of the Standard System, although leaving to the Byllesby Company the management and operation of Standard properties. The reorganization represented the amicable settlement of a dispute which had arisen between Byllesby & Co. and Standard's common stockholders. Byllesby's control of the System lay in its ownership of a special issue of 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock which carried a vote with every share. Through United States...
...slots, it has wing flaps, which vary the camber, or apparent thickness of the wing, and (the main feature) floating ailerons, which automatically assume a position parallel to air currents made by the plane in flight. The pilot can work the ailerons by hand as well, to effect lateral control of the plane, likewise the wing flaps. The plane has been designed to be put into immediate production with few changes in manufacturing methods now employed. Robert R. Osborn, project designer, speaking for the entire group of Curtiss engineers who jointly developed the Tanager in the Curtiss wind tunnel after...
...undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes of Le Brix to outdo ''Doudou" Costes, who preëmpted the kudos of their 1928 world flight and thereby created a personal enmity, were shattered...
...birth control a procedure which farmers, the conservative group in the U. S., want to know about? Farm & Fireside (Crowell monthly) last week published answers to a questionnaire. Most farmers, 67% of the 13,431 who answered, approve "legalizing doctors to impart birth control methods to married people who apply jointly." Farm wives were more interested in the matter than husbands...