Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Whipped through a bill to extend federal rent control 90 days beyond Dec. 31, thus keeping the lid on rents until the 82nd Congress can get around to making up its mind about...
...grave that the good soldier's best was retreat, it seemed high time for "the works" at home. This week Harry Truman seemed to agree, summoned his economic advisers and told them to get to work on a price-and wage-control order even though they had no adequate machinery to enforce it properly. Then the President sent out a call for congressional leaders of both parties to meet at midweek for a conference "concerning the proclaiming of a national emergency and related matters...
...Benegal Rau bustled about on another project conceived by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi: a petition to Peking. Signed by 13 nations,* the note "earnestly" appealed to Red China and North Korea "immediately to declare that it is not their intention that any forces under their control should cross to the south of the 38th parallel." Then, the petitioners added, the whole dangerous issue could be talked over...
...afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast, and on one flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted 2,650 casualties off the improved airstrip at Hagaru and whisked them off to hospitals in Japan...
Eventually the machine will be run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "We can't operate too quickly to bring this fatal disease under control," commented Stare...