Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...They run everything. Behind every Chinese shopkeeper stands a breath-sipping Japanese "adviser." By squeeze and by theft the Japanese have drained the area of every commodity, so that prices have tripled. Greatest machine of exploitation has been the North China Development Company (capitalization: $105,000,000), which got control of everything from telegraph offices to coal mines. They ground Chinese cotton farmers so hard that many stopped growing cotton: production fell from 853,120,000 Ib. in 1937 to 173,290,000 two years later...
...generation. Twenty-nine States now have sterilization laws. (The necessary operation does not preclude sexual relations.) But he is against compulsory sterilization for any other persons. Doctors should be educated to urge voluntary sterilization of persons known to be carriers of serious hereditary defects. Voluntary population control, he believes, is as much an earmark of sound eugenics as it is of Democracy. Genetic tools in the hands of dictatorial power, applied to the breeding of specific kinds of men and women, are dangerous and "not eugenic...
...excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese life, "must conform to the new national structure" in order to contribute to Japan's "cooperative Asia." Shrine v. Cross. No U. S. churchman objects to the principle that Japanese converts should control Japanese Christianity...
...Nazi scorn of democracy ("Only autocracy was fit to control the world...
...publicity device, the Bottlenecks investigation got off to a bad start. Talking carelessly to reporters, Arnold produced huge headlines, vague stories about defense-hindering control of U. S. patent users by the German firm of Krupp. He had designs on a number of industries in which foreign patent tie-ups were said to be restricting U. S. production, among them magnesium, whose chief producer, Dow Chemical Co., has built an independent U. S. magnesium industry (using sea water as ore) from its own smart research. Arnold also got off a phrase about "economic fifth columnists" which he later tried...