Word: controls
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...their beef from the Argentine packing houses which bear the familiar names of Swift, Armour, and Wilson. The Argentine has bought in the past finished heavy goods from the British with their English pounds. Since the war, however, these pounds have been blocked in London by the British control of foreign exchange; they are not now transferable into American dollars as they were in the past. This situation has put the Argentines in a difficult position. They can not get delivery on the goods ordered from England, and they can not exchange their favorable pound balances into Dillard so that...
...careless gesture: "My rich brother can handle that." By the time Lord Northcliffe died in 1922, they also owned the stately London Times, the Daily Mirror, various lesser publishing enterprises. Out of a welter of involved deals and suits that followed Northcliffe's death, Rothermere emerged with control of all these properties except the Times, which was sold to Major John Jacob Astor...
...many an Episcopal diocese a constant undercover struggle for control goes on between High-Church and Low-Church factions. When a special convention of the diocese of Chicago met last September to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, this struggle came into the open. Chicago traditionally has a High-Church bishop, though its richest parishes (St. Chrysostom's, St. James's, St. Paul's in Chicago; Holy Spirit, Lake Forest; Christ, Winnetka) are Low-Church. High-Church candidate was a handsome monk, the Right Rev. Spence Burton, Suffragan Bishop of Haiti. Low-Church...
...hadn't changed the rules. By 1937 the market became too strictly regulated for operators of his type. Through all his market days he had never been a real market insider. He never learned that sometimes it was better to take stock than cash, better to get stock control of a business to tide a man over his old age. He was a trader, a gambler-one of the sharpest. When, last spring, he put his system down on paper and reopened his office to trade on commission for customers, it was a sign that he was through...
...judgment is: No declaration of war; keep control of our time table; move closer and closer to Britain; and without declaring war, gear the country to war by maximum speed in production, training, and supply...