Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...over his shoulder, stood on the rear platform of his car, waved to a crowd at Johnstown while a high-school band played and cheers thundered in vast wavelike surges against the train. Down the Conemaugh River the train moved slowly past the fivemile, $7,600,000 cement flood-control walls that the President had promised Johnstown residents four years before. A sign along the banks read: "Thanks, Mr. President." In Pittsburgh, masses lined the streets solidly, cheering, roaring, waiting: Carnegie-Illinois steelworkers at the plant at Homestead, who last week greeted Wendell Willkie with boos; reverential Negroes of Pittsburgh...
General de Gaulle did not specify the "everything" for which he hoped as he arrived at the Cameroons. It appeared that he would have a worse time at Dakar if he tried again to take it. A German mission was almost certainly in control of the harbor, and last week General Maxime Weygand, who has a genius for dissolving opposition to the Nazis, was reported on his way there...
...tain, Free France got its New Order last week. The 84-year-old Marshal announced that, departing from the "universal bankruptcy of economic liberalism," France would seek a "harmonious combination of authority and liberty." The New Order would ban strikes and lockouts, break power trusts, regulate prices, control foreign commerce and exchange, abolish the gold standard, break away from traditional friendships and enmities, drop the Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, reinstate "true nationalism," base all French foreign relations upon collaboration with Germany...
...jitters among importers last week served one useful purpose: to make the U. S. more conscious of stockpiles, largely neglected until this year. Meanwhile, there was a possibility that, via the Philippines, Japan might circumvent the U. S. embargo on scrap. The U. S. exerts no direct control over Philippine trade, has not included the islands in its embargo. Last year the Philippines produced over 1,000,000 tons of iron ore, sent practically all of it to Japan...
...that the U. S. army air corps and the Canadian air force each will got about half of the 300 American pursuit planes and light bombers originally ordered by Sweden. The Swedish government contracted for the planes early in 1939, but shipment was held up under the export licensing control system for fear they might fall into German hands...