Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Last Amendment." Patiently, as the day wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...
When the authorship became known last year, the two board members were "excommunicated" by the Mother Church's board of directors. This, the Rochester Scientists decided, was the final stroke in a pattern of "increasingly despotic control" from Boston. By week's end the directors of the Mother Church had not made a formal statement on the split. But the Rochester dissenters happily announced that they had already received a flood of approving mail from Christian Scientists all over...
Earlier in the afternoon's racing, the freshmen, beaten by Boston University last week, easily defeated Princeton, M.I.T., and Rutgers in order. Harvey Love's crew had the race under control by the half mile mark and finished ahead by a comfortable three lengths and going away...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...
John Arnold, also a righty, who will start for undefeated Andover, has won two of the Academy's three victories. Arnold has speed and a sharp curve. His control is usually good, but he tends to blow up occasionally, as he did in the game with the Yale freshmen last Saturday, when he walked five men in less than two innings. Andover, however, managed to recover, winning...