Word: five-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reorganization of the RFC along the lines recommended by the Fulbright report (which he had called "asinine" only a few days before). The new plan would establish: 1) an independent RFC (not in the Commerce Department, as Truman had originally proposed), 2) a single RFC administrator replacing the present five-man board, 3) a statutory board of review-all urged by Fulbright...
...from Kansu province to the distant Sinkiang border of Russian Kazakstan. Its boss is wily General Peng Teh-huai. A politician as well as soldier, Peng is also deputy to Chu Teh, the Red army's commander in chief; he and Chu are the only generals on the five-man secretariat that administers the Chinese Communist Party machine...
...sponsors. They put up $43,000 in prizes for the best house designs in the $8,000 to $11,000 class (including lot), plus an additional $24,000 for the best use of glass and plywood, and the most efficient kitchen. After sifting through 2,730 house plans, a five-man jury this week announced the winners...
Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, was appointed last Monday by President Truman to a five-man committee that will study the nation's long range supply problems. This "Materials Policy Commission" will be headed by William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
...postwar re-examination of the U.S. public school system, no state is ahead of Connecticut. In their separate cities and towns, 85 different citizens' groups have been organized to find out what their schools need, and then get action started. Cause of all the activity: a five-man fact-finding commission appointed two years ago by Governor Chester Bowles and headed by Norwalk Commuter Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Last week Cousins & Co.* summed up what school-minded Connecticut citizens had learned and what they were doing about...