Word: controller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...most extreme form the Nazi menace would mean naval and military action in the western hemisphere. A completely victorious Germany would control the Italian navy, possess perhaps important parts of the French and British navies, enlist the natural cooperation of the Jananese, and have at her disposal an array of European shipbuilding facilities incomparably superior to ours. Equally important, the Germans would have become enormously self-confident. Military action then is a real possibility, and it would doubtless be materially-aided in parts of Latin America by the generous cooperation of fifth columnists...
Great Britain, appeaser to the end, kept on offering concessions in contraband control until Mussolini brusquely broke off negotiations. He was too busy preparing for action...
Excitement over fifth columnists mounted almost to panic. The Ontario Liquor Control Board officials canceled licenses for the sale of beer and light wines in all German-Canadian clubs; from Vernon, B. C. came reports of the bombing of a Canadian Legion Hall; in East York one thoroughly aroused businessman, offering the Veterans' Home Guard his full cooperation, put at their disposal his entire fleet of 30 milk trucks...
...Swift & Co. had tentatively agreed with Glore, Forgan & Co. last April to sell its control of Libby, McNeill & Libby to the public; 3,018,000 shares were to have been filed with...
...military optical goods sold in the U. S., was indicted under the Federal antitrust laws because it had an old sales & patent agreement with the German firm of Carl Zeiss. The agreement, Government men hinted, prevented B. & L. from selling range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to the Allies...