Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the uniqueness of his post, Killian refused to comment on any future policies or actions. He said that "my first responsibility is to make myself available as promptly as possible to carry out the instructions and desires of the President." He would not make any statement on a possible "crash program" for the development of atomic missiles...
Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...
...with better-heeled fiction magazines, the Atlantic-which helped pioneer the short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's had all turned down a brutally succinct short story about a crooked prizefighter, it was accepted by Staffer Edward Weeks, now editor of the Atlantic. Titled Fifty Grand, it was the first story by Ernest Hemingway to be published in a general-circulation U.S. magazine...
...February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...
FEDERAL BUILDING BOOM is about to start. Government has finally lifted 4% ceiling on interest it will pay to build post offices, federal courthouses and other U.S. Government structures on a ten-to-25-year lease-purchase plan, soon will ask for bids on ten structures from Albuquerque to Abingdon, Va. If bids are encouraging, Government will offer 30 more projects in December...