Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viennese still chafed under Allied occupation. The British and Americans would have pulled out long ago, but the Russians would not agree to a peace settlement, save on Russian terms. The Viennese made sad jokes about their situation. Said one comic in a small theater off the Kärntnerstrasse: "Those Turks, they weren't so bad. Then, we had allies to help us drive away the Turks. Now our Allies are here. Who's going to help us drive out the Allies...
...politician and his uneasy stepbrother, the soldier. Change churned up elemental issues of human freedom and organization that had to be fought out in the politicians' arena. Some of the politicians were of a familiar parliamentary type: Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Clemenceau. Some were soldier-politicians: Chiang Kaishek, Kâmâl Atatürk. Some were agitators and conspirators: Lenin, Stalin, Tito, Mao Tse-tung. One, Gandhi, was a saintly organizer. Some-Mussolini, Hitler-were pure dynasts, dealing with dark power drives deep in the spirit...
Short, rumpled A. K. Humphries took over P.I.E. as president and laid the broad plans; short, trim Gene Johnson went in as assistant general manager and carried them out. They cut costs, won new business by maintaining rigid delivery schedules, turned a profit inside a month. In 1949, P.I.E. highballed 407,000 ton miles of freight across country for an estimated gross of $14,250,000, making it one of the biggest U.S. truckers. (The biggest: Associated Transport's motor freight system, with a $25.3 million gross in 1948.) But that wasn't big enough for Humphries & Johnson...
Other new faces in new jobs last week: K. Taylor, who went to work for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. as a stenographer in 1921, was elected assistant secretary, the first woman in A.T. & T.'s history to hold that...