Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace terrible-tempered Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior, there seemed no limits to the glistening future of the Wisconsin wonder boy. Behind him was an impressive record of public service as a member of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, manager of TVA's power operations, head of the War Production Board. At 38, he was the youngest officer in the Cabinet, a hard-driving New Dealer who quickly mastered Interior's operations and spent at least half of his time in the field, brushing up on department problems at first hand...
Krug got in rows with other federal officials over reclamation projects, got the President's back up by going to Congress for more money over the head of the Budget Bureau. He was also found wanting when political accounts were added up after the 1948 election campaign...
...third contender was José Avelino, former head of Quirino's own Liberal Party. He was kicked out as Senate president last year when, it was charged among other things, he made $22,500 selling government-owned beer...
...coup had been carefully planned. Two months ago, the Communists had sent two ex-Nationalist transport officials, who now served the Reds, to Hong Kong, where the airlines had their head offices. The emissaries managed to persuade most of the airlines' Chinese personnel, who were tired of continued retreat and fearful of losing their jobs, to come over to the winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour...
Some space, at $5.95 per head for a round trip, is still available on a "Yale Special" that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford is running from South Station at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow. The return trip to Boston will leave New Haven...