Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guiding finger on domestic matters. During the week he: ¶Appointed St. Louis Banker John W. Snyder to be War Mobilization and Reconversion Director (see below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked "any patriotic American" who could to go to work on the western railroads, to help move men and supplies Pacificward...
Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians. Now Red Army troops were quartered in the houses. Near by was the road where 30-year-old John Quincy Adams, traveling to take up his post as first...
Airplane commutation between Brussels and St. Wolfgang (Austria) has stopped. In four eventful days last week Belgium's royal D.P. (Displaced Person), King Leopold III, finally made up his mind. So did his Parliament...
Died. Paul Valéry, 73, famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetière Marin, Varétés I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author - it is my kind of beauty...
...smart, energetic industrialist from St. Louis, W. Stuart Symington III. moved in as the new boss of the Surplus Property Board this week. Thereby he took on one of the toughest administrative jobs in Washington-the disposal of roughly $90 billion of surplus war property held by the Government (TIME, June...