Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drama Center will be built of red brick faced with white screening to blend with surrounding architecture. Actual construction of the center will take from 15 to 18 months, Jack Myer, assistant to chief architect Stubbins, said...
...wide variations even among animals of a single species in a state of nature, and naturally they are vastly wider among human beings, living under infinitely more varied conditions, not only social but physical, economic, nutritional and medical. In this fact lies one of the gerontolo- gists' chief hopes: to discover why some men are biologically old at 60, while others like Stagg are still young at a far more advanced chronological age-then to apply this knowledge to slow down what now appears to be premature aging...
...through the University of North Carolina ('19), then went back to the Spray mill. He rose rapidly, became vice president of Marshall Field in 1943, and in 1950 he retired, at 52, to devote the rest of his life to public service. He served a year as industrial chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany. In 1952, unwanted and unsupported by the state's Democratic organization, Hodges ran for Lieutenant Governor, traveled 11,000 miles through the state, glad-handed so many voters that he won handily. Two years later Hodges moved up to Governor when...
...rubber company and the world's biggest tiremaker last week had one of the biggest management shifts in its 60-year history. Into the post of chairman of Akron's Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1957 sales: $1.4 billion) stepped Edwin Joel Thomas, 59, president (since 1940), chief executive (since 1956 and longtime protege of Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, who became honorary chairman of the board after 58 years with Goodyear. Up to president from executive vice president moved Russel De-Young, 49, the third president in a row to be tapped from the production ranks. Litchfield...
...Germany's eight independent stock exchanges, led by Düsseldorf, the bullishness neared 1955 levels. A year ago the index of share prices on the exchanges was 192. It hit 227 in June, has since soared to 277, rose five points in the first week of October. Chief reason: a shortage of stock because many companies have been using profits to expand rather than raise capital by new stock issues. The rise has brought in more foreign buyers, stirred Germany's first crop of small investors through new mutual funds whose business is booming...