Word: a-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...director of shipping, hardbitten, hard-driving Hector Harris Robson, 52, Australian-born vice president of United Fruit Co., lately a $1-a-year man in the Maritime Commission. Robson's job will be to use every inch of ship space to best effect, see that never again does a ship sail-as one carrying a fleet of Army trucks did recently-with ballast where cargo could have been piled...
...public was also studying radio. War has sensitized many a normally numb ear to the profound difference between commentators like Mutual's Raymond Gram Swing, whose concern has been wholly with the news, and one like Mutual's $130,000-a-year Gabriel Heatter, whose soughing sanctimony and elephantine fight talk sound most appropriate when he urges the oily virtues of "my good friend, Kreml Shampoo...
Five days later Democrat Franklin Roosevelt professed ignorance of the Flynn speech and its contents. Behind him. at the press conference, as usual, sat his political adviser, Charles Michelson, who is Flynn's $25,000-a-year right-hand man and edits all his speeches. The President said: When the country is at war, we want Congressmen, regardless of party, who will back up the Government of the United States and who have a record of backing up the country in an emergency-regardless of party...
Second Week. Meantime, Nelson pushed WPB closer to its final organization, using $1-a-year men and paid helpers alike. Slick, handsome Albert J. Browning, who left a $40,000-a-year job as president of United Wall Paper Factories, Inc. to become a Nelson lieutenant, moved over to the Army as deputy director of procurement. Stocky, swarthy Frank Folsom, on leave from Chicago's big Goldblatt store,* moved into the Navy's procurement division...
...Army is so eager to have it taste right that last week in Washington a dozen experts were busy revising an Army cookbook issued only last July. The experts were headed by Mary I. Barber, formerly economist of the Kellogg Co., who went to Washington as a $1-a-year adviser of 0PM and has now become Food Consultant to the Secretary...