Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missilemen contemplate Ben Schriever, a tomorrow's man who often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever...
...that their departmental budgets are tight. Secretary Mitchell defends every dollar in the Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative" but to spend the massive $5.3 billion requested by the Agriculture Department to keep the farmers happy. Secretary Wilson told a press conference that it would take "a lot of work...
...year period. The outlay is not extravagant. This longer period means that main expenditure could begin after the fiscal year, satisfying economy hounds, and giving Southern communities time to consider their reward for graciously accepting the inevitable. At any rate, some measure should go through, because millions of post-war babies are crying for knowledge...
Tsuru testified that he had been criticized in Japan during the post-war period as "anti-American," but he stated that, despite his criticism of U.S. policies, "I am not anti-American...
...William K. Whiteford, 56, president of Gulf Oil Corp., officially becomes chief executive officer with the retirement of Sidney A. Swensrud, 56, as chairman of the board, a post that will be discontinued. Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over...