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Word: chiefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workers will soon finish the Boston approach, chief engineer Benjamin W. Fink said last night. As soon as this is completed, bids will be taken for the main span...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Span to be Ready in a Year | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

Porter has had a long career in administrative and legal public offices. Recently, he has been head of the Office of Price Administration and Chief of the U.S. Economic Mission to Greece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-OPA Chief Paul Porter Speaks Tonight at Forum | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...first recommendation calls for the omission of some extra fees beyond the $15 per term charge. The fact that patients at Stillman must pay more than the $15, for medicine, special services, and after-hour calls, has always been a chief source of complaint. The committee would make up this loss of revenue by economics in the department. But they miss the stronger argument that the department showed a balance of more than $100,000 in 1946-47, the year they studied. This figure suggests that some of these irritating fees could be abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Much for Hygiene? | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...Ellery Garage is the chief beneficiary of the local gendarmerie's efforts. They collect not only the five dollar towing charges but also a dollar-a-day storage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seize 14 Out - of - State Autos In Campaign against Illegal Parking | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...Hearst papers, points of style may be changed between editions by a peremptory wire from the Chief. When Hearst first turned against the New Deal, Hearstlings were ordered to refer to it as the Raw Deal. Some zealous copyreaders even changed the phrase in New Dealers' speeches in praise of the Administration. And when W.R.H. once got mad at Stanford University (it refused to fire a professor he suspected of Communism), and banned its name from his papers, his sport editors went grey trying to fit such substitutes as "Men from Palo Alto" into headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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