Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planner from 1954 to 1956. Another deputy premiership went to Julian Tokarski, the pre-Gomulka Minister of Motorcar Industry whose clumsiness in rebuffing worker demands led to the Poznan riots of June 1956. A third advocate of harsh centralized controls, Moscow-oriented Tadeusz Gede, was elevated to a prominent post in the State Economic Planning Commission...
...scapegoat for his economic problems. Gomulka fired Minister of Agriculture Edward Ochab, once a Stalinist too, but later a collaborator of Gomulka's in liberalizing agriculture. Ochab had been home barely a week from a trip to the U.S. when the blow fell (he got a new post in the party secretariat). By implication, he was blamed for the colossal meat mess this year that has left Poland, once a substantial food exporter, hardly able to feed itself. To make matters worse, inflation is a major threat, largely because of higher bonuses and wages that factory chiefs have been...
...half an hour, finished her program after the bomb scare was pronounced a hoax. After a thunderous ovation, Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners to Kansas Governor George Docking, who was also in the audience, even attended a post-concert party at the River Club where she danced with local millionaires and nibbled caviar snacks, an "almost blue" filet mignon and the "Delice Callas" dessert (peppermint ice cream, brandy-flavored chocolate, meringue, whipped cream, pistachio nuts...
...James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...
...post put Greenough in line as heir to James M. Symes, who moved up from president to chairman and remained chief executive officer. Symes, 62, plans to retire in 2½ years, in Pennsy fashion wanted to pick his successor well ahead of time...