Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Paul Hoffman totted up CED's cheery figures: 1) 52,000,000 workers already employed in civilian jobs; 2) steadily rising earnings, only slightly below the wartime peak; 3) production of civilian goods up from 50% to 75% since July...
Some of CED's conclusions were open to argument; union labor would not agree that its earnings are only "slightly below" the war's peak. But few would quarrel with Chairman Hoffman's conclusion that the problem is no longer how to achieve full employment. The question now is: how can it be maintained...
Despite this plumping for "high productive employment," the committee carefully refrained from endorsing the pending Murray full employment bill. But, said C.E.D. Chairman Paul G. Hoffman cautiously: the committee's plan does "not conflict" with the Murray bill...
Atomic Reaction. The Kremlin's reaction was of almost atomic intensity. Cried Commentator Karl Hoffman in Red Star: "It is significant that not a single Labor paper has opposed the conceptions put forward by the Times which are difficult to fit in with the common task of the Allied nations to ensure a firm peace. . . . A prescription has been found [by the Times]; eastern tendencies must be opposed by western ones, and for this purpose elements in western European countries who are displeased with the new democratic arrangements of eastern Europe and who are now dreaming once again...
Then there is the Air Medal Correspondent Teddy White won for "the courage and bravery he demonstrated when he flew important and dangerous missions" with the men of China-Burma- India. Command and the felt patch Bernard Hoffman wore sewed to the back of his shirt when he went along on the first B-29 raid on Japan, to identify himself to Chinese guerrillas in case his plane was forced down...