Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A fortnight ago, the Atomic Energy Commission had reserved the right to say what unions are acceptable on atomic projects. It had barred the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers and United Public Workers-on AEC's suspicion that there are Communists in its leadership.
In a consent decree before a circuit court last week, U.S. Steel Corp. gave up a 24-year court fight to save the "Pittsburgh plus" basing-point system of setting steel prices. The company promised to adhere "to a pricing method that does not conflict with the requirements of the...
Soap Opera. The soap industry's "Big Three"-Lever Bros., Procter & Gamble, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet-were accused by the Federal Trade Commission of unlawful price discrimination against small customers by their rebate system to big buyers. P. & G. admitted that it gave rebates to protect wholesale stocks, whenever...
Bitterly, at the end of the next year, he resigned his commission. Not until he was called to command the Continentals in 1775 did he wear a uniform again.
The Obsolete Doctrine. Russia's frantic insistence on national sovereignty was also demonstrated in the Commission on Human Rights, which was considering a worldwide Bill of Rights. Russia's Alexei Pavlov promptly cried that it represented interference with Russian sovereignty. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak summed up...