Word: chief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the Munitions Board, a post for which the Senate had refused to accept Carl A. Ilgenfritz because he would not give up his $70,000 salary from U.S. Steel. The nominee: Hubert E. Howard, 60-year-old Chicago coal executive, who has been serving as personnel policy chief in the Defense Department...
...chief argument for recognition of the Chinese Communists is not that non-recognition would make Mao Tze-tung "completely dependent on, and subservient to, Moscow," for Russia will not provide capital goods and technical skill to the Chinese Reds "whether it can spare them or not." Russia can ill afford to export these items, and is not likely to do so just because the Chinese Communists would like very much to have them. Non-recognition by the U.S. would merely make industrialization unfeasible in China. China in that case would neither starve nor collapse nor become Russia's puppet, though...
Benjamin W. Fink, chief engineer of the Parks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission and supervisor of the project, reported that "near Boston, the day-to-night temperature drop is sufficient to change poor skiing to good skiing and with the shortness of the season in mind we thought the investment highly worth making...
...Chief man in the School organization today is influential Dean Donald K. David, who is simultaneously a director of such enterprises as General Electric, R. H. Macy's, and the Boys' Club of America. Dean David succeeded Donham, who in 1942 resigned his deanship at the advice of his physician. Donham is now a professor of Human Relations at Colgate University...
Adam's Rib is acted as though the players found it funny, but actually, like many "sophisticated" movie comedies, it is more absurd than comical. Its chief asset: a high-toned song called Farewell, Amanda, with dismal lyrics which Cole Porter must have written while waiting...