Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only the thick, juicy spending slabs but the little, thin million-dollar slices can unbalance the delicate 1960 budget, warned the White House's sharp-eyed budget inspectors last week. Deputy Budget Director Elmer B. Staats told the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that the bureau's January forecast of $77 billion spending had already been raised "significantly" (to about $79 billion, by relatively trivial millions). Result: the paper-thin $70 million surplus appears to be wiped out completely...
Career Diplomat Philip Wilson Bonsai took on his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba last February full of high hopes and the desire to "get to know Fidel Castro personally." He at first counseled patience with Castro's erratic behavior. But for the past three months, while U.S. citizens were arrested by whim and the $850 million U.S. investment in Cuba was threatened with confiscatory decrees...
...jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston's Festival, viewers voted overwhelmingly for Gardner Cox's Robert Frost. Cox's portrait might be a bit fuzzy...
...duties will be Sherrod E. Skinner, 62, who was elected an executive vice president. Skinner has been vice president of G.M.'s accessory group since 1951. Also promoted to executive vice president was Cyrus R. Osborn, 62, vice president of the engine group since 1950. In his new post, Osborn will boss G.M.'s engine divisions, the household appliance and electro-motive groups, and the overseas and Canadian units...
Automatic Mail Canceler. An automatic mail-facing and canceling machine that positions up to 500 letters a minute for canceling was introduced by Pitney-Bowes Inc. The new machine, being installed in post offices around the country, has been processing 27,000 letters an hour with a six-man crew, v. 16.000 letters an hour by a ten-man crew working manually. Price...