Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a solution seemed finally impossible, the hot potato was tossed over to Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch and his assistant, ex-Wall Street Banker John Milton Hancock. The two cooled it off in just two months and two days. Then the Baruch-Hancock combination presented Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes with a contract-cancellation clause, ready-made to fit almost all fixed-fee contracts. Promptly Czar Jimmy ordered it put into effect. Its two main points...
Mayor LaGuardia and Leon Henderson, veteran prophets of civilian destitution, were dumbstruck. Manpower Czar McNutt, who had privately argued for a National Service Act early in the year, dropped his dead issue...
...three important preliminary points, the Oil Czar and the oilmen agreed, 1) The U.S. is drawing on its own reserves so heavily that it is on the verge of becoming a net importer of oil.* 2) As Ickes put it in the American: "The capital of the oil empire is on the move to the Middle East." 3) The U.S. had better get into that empire in a big way, and fast. To do so the U.S. must find its postwar oil policy right...
Priorities Up. Professor Speer took power as Germany's overall production czar on Sept. 2. Earlier, he had handled munitions alone. For both jobs he has cut through economic and manufacturing routine, generally managed to deliver what the armed forces demanded, and pushed through a ruthless concentration and conversion of industry to war work...
...news at Elk Basin last week was Harold Ickes. The Basin's swelling stream of oil has been pinched down to 14,000 bbl. a day for lack of adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...