Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 74-year-old Herbert Hoover emerged from this governmental jungle to give Harry Truman a preliminary report at the White House. He had a number of recommendations. Shedding of unnecessary red tape on small Government purchases could save $250 million a year. It now costs $11.20 to process an order for a $10 purchase. Perhaps $3 billion could be saved by regrouping 60 administrative agencies into about...
...gave his blessing to the reorganization plan; he would be glad to save the people's money and his own time. But the big test on establishing efficiency and economy lay not with the President but with Congress. Early in January, the Hoover Commission would make its full report. Most of the proposed changes would require congressional approval. Thousands of jobs would be wiped out. It remained to be seen how far politicians would go to save money...
...running at all, the town had been too poor to do much about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer and ate up his old budget report. Witschey could laugh about it; the 1949 budget is a lot brighter...
...revolution the pilots of the China National Aviation Corp. have flown some of the most hazardous commercial schedules in the world. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle accompanied C.N.A.C. Captain Herbert MacWilliams (TIME, Nov. 25) on his last two flights into embattled Suchow. Doyle's report...
...exotic marriage seemed to be in store for Prince Dom Joáo de Orleans e Braganca, 32, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, but gossip columnists could not agree on the bride. One said it would be beautiful Princess Fatima Toussoun of Egypt. Another report said that the hard-working prince, a Brazilian airline employee, would wed beautiful Fawzia, newly divorced by the Shah of Persia (TIME, Nov. 29). Neither the prince nor the lovely ladies could be found by inquiring reporters...