Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this, in the thirties "when jobs were hard to get," Mrs. Fainsod did volunteer work. She has also served as state president of the League of Women Voters for two years...
...organization hopes to store sofas, chairs, and tables for the summer, and then sell them to incoming students for the original owners. Agency managers hope the exchange will replace the present scattered, bulletin-board method of selling...
After the Pennsylvania Railroad's board of directors finished its regular meeting last week in Philadelphia, a telephone call went through to summon Allen J. Greenough, 54, vice president in charge of transportation and maintenance. Walking into the president's office, Greenough was hit with the biggest surprise of his career: he had just been named president of the Pennsy, jumping over the heads of other officers who had hoped...
Greenough was not the only one surprised by the board's action. Previous top candidate for the job: Greenough's own boss, James P. Newell, 57, vice president of operations. Greenough had not been considered in the running. But railroadmen gossiped that other vice presidents were scrambling so hotly for the job that the board decided to pass over all of them, picked Greenough as the man who could work best with the contending factions...
...airlines. Its main lobby is bigger than the main concourse of either Grand Central or Pennsylvania stations. To handle the 2.3 million passengers expected to move through it next year on 104 daily flights, the terminal is equipped with inclined ramps instead of stairways, a null electronic flight-information board, three-lane enclosed auto driveways that lead into the first and second floors, a dining room, cocktail lounge, and arcades for shops. Jutting out on either side of the terminal are two null loading arcades that can handle as many as 24 aircraft at a time...