Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deferment policy must still gain the approval of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, and of the White House. It provides two deferment criteria...
...streamlining of University service departments goes into effect this week when three previously separate branches are coordinated under one office. Irving B. Parkhurst, whose title is changed from Superintendent to Director of Buildings and Grounds, will head the new setup...
This reviewer always felt that Bob Hope was a better buffoon than rapid fire gagster. Apparently Director McLeod thought the same thing because he has Hope superbly overplaying his part. He does the commonplace with a flourish and the spectacular by mistake. He is at his best when he pulls the wrong tooth and when he swaggers around town under the impression he is a dead shot...
...addition, AEC was charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
...National Board of Review bowed respectfully to Actress de Havilland, to Director Roberto Rossellini for his Paisan (which it called the best film, artistically, of the year), to Actor Walter Huston for his fine performance in Treasure of Sierra Madre, and to his son, Director John Huston, for writing the screen play of the same film...