Word: paced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State would be Dean Acheson, said the President, and James E. Webb-now Director of the Budget-would be Under Secretary. The new Director of the Budget would be the present Assistant Director, Frank Pace...
Steel production of 88.5 million ingot tons, while it was about 4% above 1947, was still below 1944's record production. Although steelmen blamed the shortage on "abnormal demand," the fact was that steel capacity and production had not even kept pace with the normal growth of population. In 1948, capacity per capita was only slightly more than it had been in depression 1932; production per capita -.as below 1941. Those who talked of "abnormal demand of the boom" failed to take into account the fact that much of it would be normal demand from now on, not only...
...budget was at the top of his work list. With Budget Director James E. Webb and Assistant Director Frank Pace Jr., he dug into his daily fiscal sessions with the stern attitude of a bank examiner. He startled Webb and Pace with his grasp of budget problems. He piqued military chieftains by refusing to raise the lid on the $15 billion limit which he had clamped on 1949 military expenditures. He was firmly convinced that a larger amount would do more harm than good to the nation's economic structure...
Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
...climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace and with gusto...