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Chief of the staff was conservative, scholarly Dr. James Frederic Dewhurst, 52, ex-professor and onetime head of economic research for the Department of Commerce. The report's most important conclusion is that the U.S., for the first time, is close to having the tools, workers and know-how to nil the basic needs of its population. This hopeful prospect is not a prediction. It is a statistical projection based on normal long-term trends of U.S. growth-in population, wealth, consumption, demand, spending, etc., and the assumption that the U.S. will not be plunged into a catastrophic depression...
Transcribed-show builders last week were smug-sure that Colman's walkout (for a guaranteed $150,000 a year) would some day become a stampede. Although NBC makes transcriptions, at least one energetic independent was ready with staff and know-how to handle runaways. He was hard-eyed, 41-year-old Frederic William Ziv, the producer of the Colman show and the big beglerbeg of the "open-end"* game...
...invaders from the North," many of whom are among his best customers. Most Texans are learning to do the same, with the same view of self-development and profit. As Carl Estes, publisher of the Longview News and Journal put it: "I'm in favor of bringing those know-how Yankees right on down here. I married one and brought her here and she turned out all right...
...Power of Attack. Despite the professed astonishment of some Congressmen, the road the President indicated was a logical development of U.S. diplomacy. Americans are instinctive isolationists. But U.S. foreign policy, paced by a technology and know-how which straddles the world, has followed an ever expanding, inevitable line...
...knack of smelling out the oil beneath the cracks and domes of the earth, he added the know-how to get it out, rose in Standard like oil in a new field. In 1944, Gene Holman moved into the presidency, now gets $100,000 a year. He took his promotion calmly. On the day he was made president, Mrs. Holman got the news from the excited wife of another Standard official. When Mrs. Holman called Gene, he drawled: "Oh, yes, I meant to tell you about it when I got home...