Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...admitted that he had made money from the potato support program. But he did not like that program either. "A lot of these crops," said he, "aren't grown for the market at all, but just for the support price. I believe in a free economy, and political control is not a free economy at all. The present setup is a vote-catching proposition and nothing else. Support prices at 90% of parity are sure politics...
...Hale Bros. Stores, Inc., thereby forming a 15-store chain with combined sales of $88 million, the second biggest west of the Mississippi. (The first: Los Angeles' Bullock's, Inc.) The deal involves no cash: for $4.8 million of its own stock, Broadway will acquire control of eleven stores with a book value of $12 million, in San Francisco and four other California cities...
...This does not mean that either Catholic or Protestant theory is committed to socialism. It certainly does mean that it rejects the theory that every form of socialism is but a halfway house to Communism, and that every form of social control upon economic process is inherently wrong...
Under the benevolent tyranny of Father Frank Gilbreth, an efficiency expert, the brood motors from Providence, R.I. to its' new home in Montclair, N.J., swarms into school, undergoes a whooping-cough epidemic, a mass tonsillectomy, a visit from a lady apostle of birth control. The oldest daughter (Jeanne Grain) wages a long uphill fight on father's prejudices against hair-bobbing, lipstick and dates with boys. Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies...
...Western Allies accepted the draft for a German constitution proffered by the Bonn Convention. Since its establishment, the government has been a success in some respects as far as the Allies are concerned. It has remained free of Communist influence. It has also resisted daily offers from the Russian-controlled East State to confederate. Economically, according to the Economic Cooperation Administration, its industrial recovery has been "rapid and dramatic." This is a pleasing report for Western Powers who, according to John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, consider control of Germany the primary goal of Russian attack--propagandawise...