Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force also had eleven groups of other bombers (about 330 B-29s and B-50s), and some 33 groups of heavy and medium reconnaissance, fighter, troop carrier and other miscellaneous aircraft...
...replace him, the State Department picked another career diplomat: George V. Allen, 45, onetime chief of the department's Middle Eastern Affairs division. As U.S. ambassador to Persia from 1946 to 1948, George Allen had served in another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations...
Premier Eyskens' announcement of a plan obviously approved by his Christian Socialist party instantly renewed Belgium's dormant political battle over the King's comeback. Leopold's supporters had gathered a 25-million franc ($71,429) war chest for the impending political campaign. His chief antagonists, the Socialists, were reviving their "action committees" which are supposed to organize strikes if the King should return. Cried one of the Liberal leaders, Gaston Vandewiele: "Leopold is obstinate and a blockhead...
...that "the remains of the last emperor of the Aztecs have been found" (TIME, Oct. 10), all Mexico went wild. Nearly every town in the country held a special fiesta; on Columbus Day, Dia de la Raza, the discoverer was nearly forgotten in the flowery eulogies of Cuauhtemoc, last chief of the discovered...
...chief proved or suspected producing agents, as Hueper lists them: physical agents, such as ultraviolet rays; inorganic substances, such as beryllium and selenium; organic chemicals, e.g., benzol; certain by-products from the process of refining oil shale and petroleum; vegetable products, e.g., betel nuts...