Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper, is-was." (TIME, Dec. 25, p. 20). This is (was) beyond me. And I thought I was (is) a sort of authority on the tools of mathematics. Come now, what the hell...
Philadelphia's great ache came from the great void of its treasury. For 55 years the city has been under the uninterrupted control of a Republican machine, its destiny in the hands of "Gas House" Jim McManes, Boies Penrose, the late Ed and Bill Vare. In the '20s a City Hall spending crew, whooped on by Contractors Vare & Vare & Jerry Louchheim, built subways, parkways, museums, public buildings, sank $50,000,000 into the Sesqui-Centennial...
...more strategic raw materials (like copper and nickel) than she did before the war; 3) not to use more than specified amounts of for eign raw materials in manufactures for export (such as telephones). In return for these promises, Britain promised to expedite clearance of Swedish ships through Allied control ports, and offered naval convoy to Swedish trade ships (each Swedish owner to decide this point for himself...
...actually rendered Germany's vaunted sea terror harmless. Said El Dia, which may well have had access to the official Uruguayan commission that examined Spee: "We are authoritatively able to give assurance that the Graf Spee's fighting capacity was almost totally nullified in the battle. Its control tower had been damaged so that its artillery could not be managed. Its ammunition lifter had been paralyzed and heavy shells had to be carried on the shoulders of sailors. Therefore, when Captain Langsdorff ordered it to Montevideo, the ship was practically out of fighting condition...
...politics or religion. ... I love my fellow man, and particularly, the down and out, the socially disinherited and the economically dispossessed. ... I want, therefore, a religion which has a social aspect. ... I have never been a Communist and never will be a Communist. I have very often defended birth control. But I would not do it now; for I have begun to see a spiritual significance of birth...