Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...House, the Democrats must take 53 seats from Republicans. Even if they fail to make this full gain necessary to organize the chamber and elect their own Speaker (it would be John Nance Garner of Texas), they may achieve practical control of House affairs with the aid of about 15 Wisconsin and other Republican insurgents. Many a Republican leader considers such an eventuality as worse than an outright Democratic victory. Particularly sensitive to the possibility is the man who would then be presiding over a House that would be Republican in responsibility but Democratic-Insurgent in power and practice...
...tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes. To market this vast...
Villagers running toward the scene encountered eight reeling hysterical men who had struggled from the ship's infernal interior (one of the eight died later). Visible in the control cabin were wild faces.? The blaze was too fierce to approach...
Which was cause and which effect?the bump into the hill, the explosion, the fracture of the hull? A loss of a rudder? These questions remained unanswerable last week. Incendiary smoking by one of the party seemed, however, out of the question. Discovery of a control fin some distance away from the wreck in the woods seemed to point to what precipitated the final plunge. British and French flying experts hastened to the scene, to answer the multitude of whys, then asked Dr. Eckener to help...
...living quarters were completely built in, enveloped by the hull. The Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin passenger cabins are suspended be neath the hull, behind the control cabin under the ship's nose...