Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Russian administrative setup experienced further quakes last weekend when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial production). This had occurred on the same day that...
Like a sick man hanging on the doctor's opinion, Brazil's business and financial world awaited the final report of the Abbink Commission. This joint U.S.-Brazilian team of 105 experts, led by U.S. Economist John Abbink (chairman of McGraw-Hill International Corp.) had begun its study...
Many of the blueprints were plainly drawn from U.S. models. Thus, the commission suggested a form of Federal Reserve System to control credit. It counseled that the Brazilian practice of "seeking high profits from a limited market" should be supplanted by a business philosophy of mass production at favorable cost...
...with the problem of how much build-up to prescribe for industry, as compared with agriculture. It was no secret that Commission Aide Euvaldo Lodi, president of the National Confederation of Industry (Brazil's N.A.M.), had argued heatedly in favor of industrial development, even charging that some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost in power, transportation, and raw materials, the commission...
For the last two weeks, scrappy, self-assured ex-Navy Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr., president of Zenith Radio, has been happily harpooning his competitors. Full-page ads in 30 newspapers have trumpeted the warning that all TV sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith...