Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Part III of "Briefing for Battle" will be published Tuesday and will cover legislation to control Communist activities in the United States...
Senate leaders, trying to get on with things last week, had just about agreed to bring the President's vital economic-control bill to a vote on Friday, but they had reckoned without West Virginia's Senator. Many-hued Matt Neely arose. On Friday, he announced in his best stumping voice, the Young Democratic Club of West Virginia would be holding a rally. He wanted to be there. "In my opinion," he declaimed, "except the saving of immortal souls, the most important thing this side of the grave to the people of the world is the success...
...Schuman Plan for the integration of Europe's coal & steel industries was similarly threatened. When the Consultative Assembly voted a set of resolutions designed to give the proposed control authority more power, the British Labor group abstained. The quarrel between the British and French on the Schuman proposal flared up again when France's Paul Reynaud, shaking his finger at British Socialist Delegate Hugh Dalton, said: "We are told: 'Go ahead, you French, and build the House of Europe. If it is comfortable we will move into the room you have reserved for us. If it collapses...
Gorizia is a small (pop. 30,000) Italian city through whose eastern outskirts runs the boundary between Yugoslavia and Italy. Ever since the 1947 peace treaty which set up this artificial boundary, gregarious Gorizians had chafed mightily under border control rules that permitted only a handful of them to cross the frontier. Last week, the Italians and Yugoslavs decided to relent, issued about 2,000 permits allowing the bearers to cross the border on Sunday...
When crafty old (now 84) Frederic Christopher Dumaine got control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford two years ago, he figured that he could run a railroad just as well as the next man, and maybe better. Although railroad management was new to him, Financier Dumaine went right to work. That meant, first of all, cutting costs to the bone. He had learned the technique-slash wages, cut the staff and sales force, eliminate such "frills" as advertising-in such earlier business ventures as New Hampshire's Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. and the Waltham Watch Co. Amoskeag closed down...