Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Turned down one of Harry Truman's prize reorganization plans, to create a tenth Cabinet post and a new Department of Welfare, principally on the grounds that politically ambitious Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing would get the job and use his Cabinet rank to push his ideas on...
Because of a flagrant violation of war food orders-a little matter of exceeding their quota of rationed molasses by 771,000 gallons in a delivery to the Pepsi-Cola Co.-the Allied company had been denied further supplies. According to testimony heard last week before a Senate subcommittee, General...
The I.L.G.W.U.'s domain embraces five buildings in New York (including the old Tammany Hall), 16 in other cities. It runs three FM stations, has just bought an AM station. Its educational department is the nation's best, and the union offers scholarships to Harvard and Wisconsin to...
For the 1949 crop Aroostookians agreed to cut their acreage by one-fourth-though the Department of Agriculture insists that farmers are growing almost as many spuds, on less land, by planting the rows a little closer together and piling on the DDT and fertilizer. Aroostookians had themselves persuaded Agriculture...
Looking at this good news, some overeager optimists crowed that the recession had reached bottom and that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would...