Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson's first quiet triumph was a close relationship between the Administration and the jealously independent Federal Reserve System, which controls U.S. bank-credit levels and was once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing...
...Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white blood cells...
...People are bored with us and the things we sell," said Adman Brower. "Up until the last few months, Americans have been the most desiring people in the world. Salesmanship and advertising and consumer credit have stimulated this desire. We have been the prophets who condemned the old and showed the way to the new. We have been merchants of discontent, creators of obsolescence...
...such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain roars, and by the time the tumult has subsided, the sergeant is "a 45-year-old private" who does not respond to Will's heartfelt sympathy...
...large measure of the credit for this, according to captain Ali, must go to the H.A.A. whose support for the fledgling club has helped it considerably and is responsible for the renascent interest in the sport in the Harvard community...