Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Other Congressmen were still trying to find a Baruch-like formula. Alabama's Democrat John Sparkman presented to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee an amendment to the Truman program which would authorize 1) a wage freeze, 2) rationing of scarce commodities, 3) broad rent control, and 4) a rollback of prices to June 25-the day the Korean war began-and strict control as of that date...
Everybody had ready every kind of explanation for their price increases except the obvious one-the fear that price control would come and catch them with their prices down...
...first principle, that the Marshall Plan should be used only for peaceful economic recovery of Europe. Henceforth, said Deputy ECAdministrator William Foster, Marshall Plan nations could rearm themselves with their counterpart funds-some $3 billion in their own currencies which they have contributed, and put under U.S. control, to match ECA dollars. With that matter cleared up, the Senate briskly voted ECA its $2.7 billion...
...even though they were paid for the destroyed cattle, angry Mexican farmers began ambushing the control parties and shooting them down (23 were murdered in line of duty). Under the direction of the commission's cochairmen, Major General Harry H. Johnson of Texas, and Oscar Flores, subsecretary in Mexico's Department of Agriculture, A-men relaxed their trigger fingers and switched to a policy of strict quarantine and vaccination...
...yards on its axle before it stopped. The crash broke the fuel tank, spewed gas along the track. Friction set the fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...