Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress opened with what Peking Radio called a "thunderous standing ovation" for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. That done, the delegates listened to a mournful recitation of China's economic woes by Chief Planner Li Fu-chun. Nearly three years after the announcement of his Five Year Plan, Li confessed that his grandiose project to remake China in the image of Soviet Russia by 1957 was hardly worth the paper it was written...
...Five Year Plan proper did not get going at all until last February, two years behind schedule. "This was because of ... our lack of experience in drawing up long-term plans and our very inadequate experience in construction work," explained Planner Li. With the "wholehearted, disinterested and fraternal assistance of the Soviet Union," the plan had been revised and brought "closer to reality." In practice, Li admitted, this meant a drastic reduction in many of the fanciful targets...
Samuel W. Anderson, 57, resigned as assistant Secretary of Commerce for international affairs to become president of the American Watch Association, representing U.S. importers of Swiss movements. An investment banker and industrial planner, Anderson joined WPB in 1941, supervised the huge expansion of U.S. aluminum and magnesium industries. He returned to Washington in 1948 to become ECA's industrial director, later headed the World Bank's Latin American division. As assistant commerce secretary, Anderson supported President Eisenhower's tariff raise for Swiss watches last year. As watch association president, he will try to turn back the tariff...
...Chief planner of the cultural export drive is the International Exchange Program of ANTA (American National Theater and Academy), a privately financed, nonprofit organization, which has been sending American artists abroad with its own funds since the late 1940s. Last August, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 for U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs and cultural events, asked ANTA to be its contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise...
...Charles William Eliot II '20, nationally known landscape architect, regional planner, and grandson of the late President Eliot. The chair he will assume is the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture named after his uncle, who was also a landscape architect...