Word: majorities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four days later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions...
...professors had no reason to worry: the questionnaires were still experimental. But by next year, they would be a major factor in deciding faculty promotions. A bad grade year after year might well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...
...agreement was full of ifs & buts, and it still had to be approved by the U.S. Congress and the other nations. But, in principle, it would provide a steady, four-year market for a maximum of 456 million bushels of wheat a year for five major wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum...
Before asking for revision of the act, CAB will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...
...Family. The audience recovered from its surprise quickly enough to admire the fair play of the Academy's 1,450 voting members. For some, another surprise was the fate of 20th Century-Fox's major contender, The Snake Pit, which won only one award, for its sound recording...