Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British Fleet ceases to control the Atlantic, the U. S. Fleet cannot stay away without endangering the security of the U. S. itself...
...plan, enormously costly, emergency in nature, totalitarian in control, was Franklin Roosevelt's answer to the desperate news from abroad. Last week, with the first unmistakable nips of Nazi economic pincers in South America (see p. 32), the need for U. S. action became desperately urgent. This plan for all-American economic defense became the biggest "must" on the Government's program...
...able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently was to meet blockade with blockade, bottle up the British and what was left of the French in the Middle East and harass them until Hitler should complete Ms smash in Europe...
...Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the U. S. is represented in the international assembly which legislates for Tangier and the U. S. Consul is a member of the governing Committee of Control...
...filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...