Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeking a favorable decision from the Allied Control Commission, Friedrich feels that free mail communication, particularly between American and German scholars, will be more effective than public propaganda in helping the Germans understand democracy.
The Maritime Commission proposed to go right on building better ships, 50 a year. (In 16 years after 1920, the U.S. built only two dry-cargo ships.) Thirty are already abuilding or contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open...
The Commission does not yet know what it will do with the millions of tons of ships it cannot use or sell. As insurance, which it considers cheap, it hopes to keep at least 20,000,000 tons in "standby" condition. Estimated cost (in the Commission's own winning...
Tough & Tougher. Joe Di Giorgio has been battling ever since he ran away from his home in Sicily at 14. At 19, he was operating his own fruit commission house in Baltimore. At 21, he started the Atlantic Fruit Co., imported bananas in competition with big United Fruit. When it...
Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr. had hoped to let the public in on what he considered a good thing; he wanted to sell it $9,900,000 in stock in his new company. Last week, the Securities & Exchange Commission tripped up fast-moving Mr. Higgins. SEC found that Manhattan'...