Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Throop Smith, professor of Finance, yesterday resigned as the U.S. Treasury Department's chief tax adviser. Smith began his tenure of service with the Treasury Department...
Secretary of the Treasury Anderson accepted Smith's resignation "with reluctance and a genuine feeling of regret," asking that he continue as a consultant on the negotiation of tax treaties with several foreign countries. The resignation becomes effective a week from tomorrow...
...Third Man" Theme. The big issue had been whether the ''third man'' in a jet cockpit should be a pilot or a flight engineer (TIME, May 5). At first, American President C. R. Smith figured that adding a third pilot would be plain featherbedding. Smith changed his mind after American's operations men, who have been studying the line's first Boeing 707 jet in test runs since October, reported that a third pilot is needed, along with an engineer. The plane flies so fast that two pilots should always be at the controls...
...tactical move. Smith then withdrew his offer to put a third pilot in the jets. Most executives of other airlines oppose the costly third pilot, but know that they will have to go along with it if American finally agrees. Last week the National Mediation Board suggested a new contract that would lift top jet-pilot pay to $28,340 for 85 hours a month in a jet, up from $19,221 for a top DC-7 captain, plus sweeter benefits. American, losing $1,000,000 a day. immediately accepted. At week's end the truculent pilots had still...
...Arboretum's dry plants are found--damp but safe--in a secret passageway in Massachusetts Hall. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Pusey says. William Bentinck-Smith remarks, "Somebody ratted." Dean Bundy flees to the Dominican Republic and Sherman Adams comes out of retirement to replace him. Attorney General McCormack turns the case over to the Department of Justice which stops extradition proceedings when it learns Bundy's erstwhile political affiliations. John F. Kennedy has a ten-hour conversation with Mao Tse-Tung and makes his 160th non-political speech of the year...