Word: jess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget and eight investigators, it will tackle the sale of tankers by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to the American Overseas Tanker Corp., then headed by Joseph E. Casey, onetime Congressman from Clinton, Mass. It will also delve further into the activities of ex-War Assets Administrator Jess Larson...
...Donnelly had arrived from Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast of their release, followed by stateside basketball scores, they repeated again & again:"Thank...
Like Charles Oliphant, General Services Administrator Jess Larson cried out in anguish when his name was mentioned in Lawyer Teitelbaum's story. Larson hurried before the King subcommittee to deny that he was part of any shakedown clique. He used his harshest words on Frank Nathan, Florida influence peddler, identified by Teitelbaum as one of the men who made the shakedown proposition for the Washington "clique...
...Last week the King subcommittee asked Nathan whether Larson had telephoned him within the past year or so? Nathan couldn't remember any calls. Then Subcommittee Counsel Adrian DeWind introduced some startling evidence: a list of calls from the private telephone in Jess Larson's office, showing that Larson called Nathan nine times last June and July. The calls, ranging up to 20 minutes in lengfti, were made to Miami and to the Waldorf-Astoria in'New York...
...turnabout in rubber is the result of increased synthetic production and lower prices on crude rubber. When the Korean war sent the price of natural rubber skyrocketing from 43? to 80? a pound in Singapore, Jess Larson's General Services Administration took over all rubber importing. It beat down prices (47? last week) by restricting buying, put government-owned synthetic plants back in production, stepped up output to more than 760,000 tons for 1951, a rise of 87% in the past two years. With controls lifted, tiremakers last week confidently announced that they would soon be able...