Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Toward the evening of Sunday, I had given them satisfaction. They gave me a glass of water, a bit of bread which I could not eat, and altered their bearing ... I was given a cigarette, and time to relax and control my trembling-hands, feet, teeth, so that I could write down what I had told them...
...foreign affairs, the speech nodded politely to the U.S. and Canada for their "generous help," pledged continued support of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. By inference, it rejected Winston Churchill's campaign suggestion for renewed top-level talks with the Russians on international atomic energy control...
Though eager to sell broadcast time to sponsored commentators with partisan views, most radio stations are timid about taking sides on anything. Last week-owing to circumstances beyond its control-a Los Angeles station found itself speaking right out in a labor dispute. Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...
...detective Raymond Schindler to investigate him. Schindler found "there wasn't a blotch on him," but suggested that the Pregels might save themselves some trouble by turning over the management of the company to someone like Nelson. Nelson agreed to take over, provided the Pregels gave him voting control of their stock for two years...
...Canada has a similar project. The two nations would share the cost of a $31 million dam, just north of Lake Erie's outlet, to control the flow into the Niagara River...