Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas is the 17th U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, the 46th Chief of Mission. Not until 1893 did the U.S. raise ministers to ambassadorial rank...
...only does Conerly of Ole Miss rank as the nation's most successful passer, but he is first in total yardage gained-passing and rushing. . . . [Also] he has taken part in 61% of all Rebel plays to date. His defensive play has been as outstanding as his offensive...
...Composer Ernest Bloch. Juilliard faculty members and students played his rich, rhapsodic chamber music and orchestral compositions (including the now famed Schelomo) in a two-day festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next man, but he is their master, not their servant...
...nimble way in which upstart Texas Eastern had jumped overnight into the first rank of U.S. public utilities impressed Wall Streeters. But what really made their eyes pop was the way Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. had handled the financing-and thereby reaped fat paper profits for itself and the promoters of Texas Eastern...
Obstacle. The committee had hard words for the unwieldy, badly organized independent Maritime Commission, "the most serious obstacle standing in the way of the development of the merchant marine." It proposed dropping the five maritime commissioners in favor of a Maritime Administrator of sub-Cabinet rank, under the Secretary of Commerce, with a Maritime Board to perform the present agency's legislative and judicial functions. The committee also recommended 1) continuation of operating subsidies and training programs; 2) a program to revive the nation's coastwise and intercoastal shipping, through surplus ship sales and the elimination of discriminatory...