Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The July 19 issue of TIME carries a story on the fatal crash in Mexico of an aircraft chartered by the joint U.S.-Mexican commission fighting aftosa (hoof & mouth disease) . . . Certain statements have caused embarrassment to the Military Air Transport Service and, unfortunately, are not substantiated by the facts as...
Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority...
To lengthen "America's greatest highway," Wall Street last week made the biggest revenue bond offering in its history. Headed by Drexel & Co., B. J. Van Ingen & Co. Inc., Blyth & Co.; Inc. and the First Boston Corp., a syndicate of 217 dealers began marketing a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issue...
The turnpike issue got off fast. Insurance companies and other institutional investors signed up for nearly $60 million the first day; after 24 hours, there was only about $15 million still to be sold. The reasons were plain. On tolls ranging from $1 and $1.50 for motorcycles and cars to...
For two days, with Mackenzie King watching every move, the resolutions committee hammered away at a party platform. The convention dodged such issues as inflation and Communism. To please the seven Maritime and western provinces, it plumped for a Royal Commission on freight rates. In an assertion of Canadian nationalism...