Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To operate on a 44-hour-a-week basis only five men would have to be added to the crew, he said. (Shipping experts said ten.) As for costs, what about profits operators made during the war? Snarled Bridges: "What happened to $8 billion of U.S. funds which have not...
Arm of Policy. Over the disputants hovered the Labor Department's chief conciliator, Edgar Warren, and his aides. On the sidelines sat two other Government men: War Shipping Administrator Captain Granville Conway and John Carmody of the Maritime Commission. They represented the U.S. Government, still the actual owner, because...
At the last minute the Senate had added two minor amendments. Otherwise the committee's recommendations (TIME, April 22) rode through untouched. A five-man, full-time civilian commission would have complete and sweeping powers over every phase of atomic research, production, engineering and application. A military liaison committee...
Last week, after 54 years of such advertising, the Federal Trade Commission decided that it was "false and misleading." Reason: it made the public believe that "dandruff is an abnormal condition." The truth, according to FTC: "Dandruff is a physiologically normal condition . . . and cannot be removed permanently through the use...
Undergraduates' thinking developed markedly from that June day in 1940 when a Crimson editorial voiced their fear "that under the guise of preparedness (we) will be catapulted into a futile and devastating foreign war while our own democracy crashes in ruins," to the bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they...