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...necessary constitutional majority) President Truman's plan to reorganize the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Under the plan, now effective, the RFC will have a single administrator to be appointed by the President, and a special five-man investigating board to review all loans over $100,000. Probable one-man boss: NSRB Chairman Stuart Symington, one of the few. Truman favorites still personally popular in Congress...
...soon started a spree that death stopped in 1920, 14 years later. Sober hours he devoted to painting and a little sculpture. His artist friends, including Soutine, Brancusi and Utrillo, thought him great. His acquaintances thought him accursed. The police thought him a nuisance, closed his only one-man show because the nudes in it were so frankly sexy. The public never thought...
...MacArthur. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft observed: "It is ridiculous not to let Chiang Kai-shek's troops loose ... It is utterly indefensible and perfectly idiotic." A few Democrats publicly answered back. Said Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr: "I think the prolonged performance of his one-man act is wearing the patience of the rest of the team mighty thin...
...machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...fight for "Tombstone Hill," rising 1,200 feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack...