Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...steelmaker, the U. S. has imported as much as 911,919 long tons a year (1937), all but a pipsqueak percentage from Russia, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Brazil, India, the Philippines. Like rubber, manganese has to travel a long, war-periled route to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Enemy control of the seas would put the great steel industry, vital for national defense, in a pretty...
...internal politics Don Ramón has social ideas that are far to the left of those of the elements that first supported the revolution. He has admitted many onetime Leftists into the Falange. He has organized syndicates in Spanish industry, giving virtual control to the workers - who to join the syndicates must be members of the Falange. The Falange runs the Auxilio Social, a nationwide social service supported by a sales tax, enforces Government-fixed prices of all food and clothing, distributes free milk to Fascist babies, supports orphanages that are brimful of war's victims, children. Serrano...
Poised over them now is the shadow of Emilio Azcarraga, who is sure that he will soon be able to take control of their stations, add a few outlets to the network he hopes...
...rose Sir William. Said he: "About two years ago, in very dirty weather, some pirates pushed us on the rocks and boarded us, disguised as 'national interest men.'" The need for state control of industry he could see, he said, but "It's going altogether too far when . . . this company has earned ?3,170,000, to withhold the whole of its earnings...
...faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and their three children, attired in long balbriggan underwear. General greetings." Then Mrs. Fletcher delivers the line which should stop U. S. advertising copywriters in their tracks for a long time...