Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MADISON AVENUE calls it "the Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade...
The Danes stood their ground. Their Atomic Energy Commission, which includes Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, Denmark's grand old man of nuclear physics, had bluntly warned its government that should the Skate have a serious accident in the Copenhagen harbor, dangerous radioactive materials might be released. "If only one...
> There is too much deception in advertisers' claims for toothpaste and tooth powders and also for tranquilizers. charged a subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations-and it's up to the Federal Trade Commission to do something. The subcommittee's prescription : force the manufacturers to...
...straw-boss its 41,000-mile interstate-highway program. In Washington, Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy chose Ellis Leroy Armstrong, 44, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncussing Mormon who heads Utah's Road Commission, to be his "executive vice president" and the man responsible to oversee actual construction. As commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Armstrong not only must pour the concrete, but also smooth the waters as conciliator between the states and the Government on history's biggest public works project...
Low Pressure. Armstrong learned his engineering at Utah State ('36), sharpened it as a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dam engineer from 1936 to 1953. Moving on to Egypt's controversial-and still unbuilt-Aswan High Dam project as a U.S. consultant, he showed plenty of diplomatic savvy in...