Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper...
...Molotovs live in a three-room Kremlin apartment, once occupied by Czar's servants. Their nextdoor neighbor is Stalin...
...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...
...Wisconsin. In upping Wisconsin-born Leo Crowley as Washington's newest czar, the President threw him a whole bouquet. Said he: "Leo Crowley is one of the best administrators in or out of government and I find great satisfaction in promoting him to a position which will centralize all foreign economic operations in one operating agency...