Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Crowley later became Alien Property Custodian, he in turn appointed V.E. to the board of two of the richest plums in his hands, General Aniline & Dye Corp. and General Dyestuff Corp. Similarly, V.E. met George Allen ten-odd years ago, when the President's jester was just a man around Washington. Says V.E.: "He was a very amusing fellow and I took a liking...
...wonder drug, streptomycin, was at last ready for general distribution among 1,600 U.S. hospitals. Last week the Civilian Production Administration, the drug's custodian, announced that current production (about 140,000 grams a month) would meet all demand-except for treatment of tuberculosis...
...Smithsonian Institution, custodian of the nation's giraffes and Rembrandts, collector of historic aircraft and coffee mills, and authority on bugs, fish and Indians, last week was celebrating its centennial. It was a good occasion also for recalling its little-known founder: James Smithson, an Englishman who never...
...will probably not be paid for his 40% interest in Bata. There are still Bata factories in England and Canada, controlled by Bata's kin. But he claims that the U.S. plant which he built at Belkamp, Md. and which was operated by the Alien Property Custodian during the war no longer belongs to him (just who owns it is a cooperative mystery...
...custodian of the nation's meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug-foreign nations; Congressmen (for their constituents); distraught fathers & mothers, anxious to try anything that might cure a sick child. Newspapers were featuring swallow-hard stories about babies wasting away for want of streptomycin...