Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often finds him self in conflict with other department heads; Washington gagsters call Humphrey "Secretary of Everything." But Humphrey's function, long missed in Washington, is the essential one of imposing outside limits on Government activities, limits which force operating depart ments to relearn that economy is the parent of effectiveness. Humphrey and the President have become warm personal friends, and see a good deal of each other outside their official talks. Although the personal relationship is less close, the Pres ident also places great confidence in Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
More practical imaginations were fired too. Last week National Fabricated Products Inc., a Chicago electronics manufacturer, announced that it has had more than 500 inquiries about the silicon batteries which it has just started making commercially under license from Bell Lab's parent company. Western Electric. Inquiries have come from industrial labora tories all over the world, including India...
...Furry case, there is initial dispute as to the authority of the McCarthy subcommittee. Its parent committee was originally designed, Furry's lawyers claim, to oversee only the General Accounting Office and the Bureau of the Budget, and was delegated the task of "studying the operation of government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency." Alan Barth, editorial writer of the Washington Post and a sharp critic of congressional investigative techniques, has argued that "It is one thing to strip Congress of its investigatory power and quite another to strip a committee of power...
GIANT COKES, tried out in test markets since last year (TIME, Oct. 11), will soon be sold nationally. So far, some 200 local Coca-Cola bottlers have asked permission to put out either "king-size" (10-to-12-oz.) or "family-size" (26-oz.) bottles, and the parent company has given them the green light...
...Grace & Co.'s shipping subsidiary, Grace Line. Lapham succeeds Cassius C. Mallory, 64, who stepped up to the Grace Line board chairmanship vacated by W. R. Grace & Co. President J. Peter Grace Jr. (Grace gave up the title to free himself for the diversified operations of the parent company.) Lapham comes by shipping naturally: his grandfather was co-founder of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., his father was onetime president and board chairman. Brooklyn-born, Lewis Lapham grew up in San Francisco, went East to school (Hotchkiss and Yale '31), worked as a ship news reporter...