Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Having voted 3-to-1 for an earlier version, the House had already rejected the argument that the bill would not only "control" but stultify essential Federal functions. When Texas' lemony, relentless Hatton Sumners called the Senate bill up for final passage by the House, hostile but hopeless Administration leaders had already given up. This week they let it pass (176-to-51), expected a veto by Franklin Roosevelt...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
...modern contest is fought not merely with military weapons of the old and new types, but with economic explosives as well. Organizational devices-are now directed toward the mobilization of the entire resources of the nation against forces aiming to annihilate or subdue us. Export-import control, systems of barter, blocked currencies, manipulated exchanges and credit instruments are types of the means in question; and these devices in turn rest upon administrative management of men and materials...
WASHINGTON-The strategic Caribean island of Martinique was promised tonight as a site for a U. S. Naval Base if and when General Charles Do Gaulle's "Free Frenchmen" gain control there...
...seem to feel that the continent will satisfy the Axis, and that it will take years to organize that territory. Both of these notions are false. The Axis Powers have made it apparent that they want direct control of a larger part of the globe, and a voice in the control of the rest of it. As to the organization of the conquered territory, this is accomplished both during and between campaigns...