Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of Germany my job was to work out a plan for the demobilization of the aircraft industry after Japan fell... to prevent the contraction of that industry to such a low point that it could not be quickly and adequately expanded in time for a World War III." Baker presented his final plan to Congress early in 1946 where "it was received with interest and quietly tucked away in some pigeonhole...
Massachusetts A-31--William D. Weeks (Boston); Matthews 10--William F. Gleason III (Chicago); Matthews 22--David R. Ferry (Maplewood. New Jersey); Matthews 33--Edward F. Burke (Providence, Rhode Island); Matthews 46--Samuel C. Butler (Logansport, Indiana); Mower A-11--Stephen R. Graubard (Cambridge); Stoughton 18--Charles H. Olmstead (Hartford, Connecticut...
Tito himself was busy being friendly with visiting Americans, and hoping thereby to impress Stalin that any aggression against Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...
...pretty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, society gossipist for Washington's McCormick-owned Times-Herald (her column is now Hearst-syndicated) and ex-wife of the Journal-American's own Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini. The Hearsts shuttle between Washington and Manhattan, have one child, two-year-old William Randolph III...
...John D. Rockefeller III can afford to experiment, since she keeps her modern art purchases in a guest house. The boldest of collectors, she is also the most reticent, and springs from rather than to the defense of her choices. Along with distinguished sculptures by such European moderns as Brancusi, Giacometti, Lipschitz and Marini, she buys the smear-technique abstractions of such avant-garde Manhattanites as Baziotes, Motherwell, Rothko and Tomlin. Her hand-dribbled Jackson Pollock (see cut) is appropriately small...