Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...House bill gave the President almost all he wanted-power to requisition goods and facilities, assign priorities, control credits, make loans up to $2 billion for production of war materials-and some things he did not particularly want -stand-by power to establish at his discretion wage and price ceilings, order rationing. The bill would also penalize hoarders with a maximum $10,000 fine and a year in jail...
...imposition of full economic control would require possibly half a million civilian officials, the policing of nearly 1 billion transactions a day, said Taft. The bill, which Bernard Baruch had argued was the minimum necessary, would, according to Taft, give Harry Truman "arbitrary dictatorial power" to regiment the economy; Congress should have its hand on the lever of every war manufacturing program...
Said Ives: "I doubt that it is necessary to convince the American people that they are now beset by a very grave crisis, in which our future freedom and freedom everywhere is at stake . . . There can be no question of choice between acceptance of limited governmental regulation and control-on a temporary basis-by honest-to-goodness Americans, and the possible alternative of permanent and absolute control administered by a Soviet Commissar...
Churchill asked for more U.S. and British troops on the continent, formally proposed establishment of "a unified European army subject to proper control and acting in full cooperation with the U.S. and Canada." His motion was carried by 89 votes to 5, with 27 delegates abstaining. (Of the five nay votes, one was cast by a British socialist and four by Irish members, who attacked Mr. Churchill for British "aggression" in Ireland...
...seventh inning the crowd began edging up on their seats; no hits yet, and Bickford was still clipping the corners of the plate with tantalizing sliders and sinkers and a fast-breaking curve. Bickford had walked Dodgers in the fourth and fifth innings, but otherwise his control had been perfect...