Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Froze automobile prices as of Dec. 1, canceling price boosts just announced by Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and Nash (see BUSINESS). The President's Economic Stabilization Agency therewith took the first big step toward selective wage and price controls. Others expected: steel, aluminum and copper. ESA begged the rest of industry and labor to adopt voluntary controls. Such pleading had never worked before, and would not this time, but ESA was simply not prepared to police a nationwide control order...
...were striking not at the railroads but at the U.S. Government, which seized the roads last August and put them under Army control, to avert just such a strike. For 21 months, the union had been pressing for 48 hours' pay for a 40-hour work week (the same increase given a million non-operating employees in 1949), while the railroads' best offer had been 44 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. Now that a wage-price freeze seemed imminent, explained union officers, the workers could wait no longer, and so they had gone...
After three days, Singapore came under control again. Scores of demonstrators were in jail, and seething Moslem leaders vowed to carry on the legal fight for Bertha's return to her husband. The Singapore "Nadra Fund" collected $3,000 to keep it going. The riots had cost 17 dead, more than 150 injured...
Differing strongly in personality and political viewpoint, Nehru and Patel worked in harness with apparent smoothness until last September. Then their differences over the proper policy toward Pakistan and India's Moslem minority-Patel favored a tough line-led to an open struggle for control of the Congress Party. Patel won the first round, but in the end mutual dependence prompted Patel and Nehru to patch up their quarrels...
...report conceded that the vaccine, properly administered, is harmless, and probably desirable among nurses, doctors, laboratory workers, members of families where tuberculosis is present. But, the report warned, "undue reliance must not be placed on the vaccine as a protective measure at the expense of established measures of control...