Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...critical time, said Bradford, the U.S. should abolish the separate medical services of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and establish a simple, unified medical command, directly responsible to the Secretary of Defense. Once established, the unified service must then be allowed to operate "without the blundering interference or control of other services, and without the stupid mismanagement of line officers...
...occupation, Japan's press had been infested with Communists. Red-led unions, going far beyond the intent of U.S.-sponsored labor laws, had won contracts denying management the right to fire anyone for any reason without full union approval. Thus, by 1946, Reds had gained editorial control of Tokyo's major dailies. Although many of the Red leaders were finally ousted under the prodding of occupation authorities, many lesser Communists remained and management was powerless to do anything about them...
...shipload, sent prices bouncing up almost 6?a pound in one day to 52.5? a pound. As a result, rubber also rocketed in New York-to 54.3? a pound, a 22-year record. New York's Commodity Exchange governors, fearing that the futures market was soaring out of control (a speculator who put up $800 to buy rubber futures in January could have had a $7,500 profit last week), ordered speculative futures margins doubled; buyers had to put up almost half the purchase price in cash...
...high commodity prices are the fault of speculators; since the war began, the volume of futures trading has jumped 128% in eggs, 98.2% in lard, 78.6% in wheat and 44.1% in wool tops; prices have increased accordingly, from 5% to 41%. Brannan wanted Congress to give him authority to control margins and thus choke off "unrestrained" speculation...
...helmeted girl on the jacket looks like a dewy-eyed deb on safari; actually, the heroine is a medical missionary in her 40s. The book is also called a novel and is offered as such by the Literary Guild. In sober fact, few fiction writers have ever displayed less control of the novelist's art than Author Louise Stinetorf. Nonetheless, her story of missionary life in Africa has enough candor, sympathy and even occasional excitement to win it a large number of midsummer readers...