Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very next day Mullins' analysis inaugurated a new policy, decidedly more kind to Sinclair Weeks. On this particular occasion he achieved a thorough reversal of policy. It could have been instructions, or possibly a deeper social insight; but it happened in 30 minutes in the boss' office. Richard S. Stewart...
Then one day veteran Railroadman Raoul Dautry, Joliot-Curie's boss on the Atomic Energy Commission, came to Saint-Sylvestre.To the assembled villagers Dautry said: under a law of 1810 all subsoil wealth belongs to the state. Therefore no individual would gain from radioactive hectares. At the maximum the local uranium fields would need less than 50 workers. Therefore even a new hotel or restaurant might not be assured of success...
...showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever since." Charlie Ross wasn't trying to censor anybody, the President said...
...Serge. From the start, Trippe's was a seagoing airline. His "captains" and "first officers," dressed in blue serge, talked in knots instead of miles per hour. On long overwater flights they flew by celestial navigation. While they piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining...
Soloists, orchestra, and all 300 members of the Glee Club and Choral Society deserved every bit of it. They did everything that Koussevitzky told them to do, and since he was the boss, that is the highest praise they could be given...