Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dimitrov has been the leader of the Cominform campaign against Stalin's Bad Boy Tito. Bulgaria's boss might have fallen into disfavor because the campaign had not yet got very far. Only last year...
...architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...year-old Odorizzi, this was the last straw. Last week he quit and went off to his Wisconsin mink farm. A day later, Vice President Arthur Romer, after 32 years at Ward's, also quit. Then Avery got the resignation of Vice President Albert O. Steffey, retail store boss who had been with Ward's for 21 years. Steffey went home and opened up the bottle of 1811 brandy he had been saving for the occasion. With their departure, Sewell Avery snapped: good riddance; all three had been part of the "very real conspiracy...
When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last...
Married. Helen ("Helenita") Kleberg, 21, blonde daughter of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' huge, fabulous King Ranch (976,000 acres, 390 oil wells, 3,000 horses, including Derby Winner Assault); and Dr. John Deaver Alexander, 25, staff physician at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; in Kingsville...