Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bureau applauds Howell's careful approach. He is operating in certain control areas and comparing results with records of rainfall in those districts in the last 15 years. Only rain occurring downwind from the seeding plane will be considered man-made. Howell's experiments may produce the first really accurate results in the field...
...bill now before Congress calls for $50 million for research on the water problem of the western states, part of which would go for research on rainmaking. Others propose that the government take over the whole business of weather control. If this goes through, readers may see the day when rainfall is determined by a House majority...
Ivan refused. An editorial in Eva Peron's own evening Noticias Gráficas announced the inevitable decision: "The authorities who control education have taken no step whatsoever [to counter] the terrific insult . . . Those whose task it is to look after the national culture and pUrity of national virtues have failed...
...deal was the latest accomplishment of a management team that bought control of Childs's 53 restaurants two months ago for about $1,500,000. The team: crisp, ruddy-faced President N. Clark Earl Jr., onetime top aide to Restaurant Man Howard Johnson and formerly a colonel in charge of Army PXs and commissaries in Europe, and Executive Vice President Charles Crouch, 51, who had built up six faltering grocery stores into California's successful Lucky Stores chain (TIME, June 30, 1947). Although Childs had lost almost $230,000 in 1949 on a gross of nearly $20 million...
Both McDonald's idea and the production of films for free TV may make more headway as the Government continues to split movie studios from theater control. Even when the moviemakers are legally divorced from the theater owners, and probably for a long time thereafter, Hollywood is likely to favor the exhibitors as its best customers. But eventually, though many of the theaters will undoubtedly survive, the stormiest upheaval in entertainment history seems destined to bring the moviemakers to a prosperous peace with the enemy...