Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Iskander Mirza was pleased enough at Suhrawardy's fall because the pair are old political enemies; nevertheless, the President asked Suhrawardy to stay on in office until a new government could be formed. The two leading candidates to succeed him: Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon and Finance Minister (and former ambassador to the U.S.) Syed Amjad AH. Both are firmly pro-Western, would not change Pakistan's foreign policy, which includes membership in both the Baghdad Pact and SEATO...
...faced North Carolinian who started on the strait-laced Star as a reporter in 1921, has been editor of the paper since 1946, and is a onetime president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He was elected by the A.P.'s 24-man board of directors to succeed the Philadelphia Bulletin's President-Publisher Robert McLean, 66, who resigned after 19 years. McLean's predecessor: the late Star Publisher Frank B. Noyes, who as president of the A.P. from its reorganization in 1900 until 1938 helped build it into the world's biggest wire service...
...when he rapidly organized U.S. Rubber's first venture into the munitions business, bossed a division that turned out World War II explosives, 20-mm. and 40-mm. shells. With President McGovern just three years from mandatory retirement, U.S. Rubber also tapped two leading candidates to succeed him: Vice President Eugene A. Luxenberger, 54, who started as a teen-age production hand 36 years ago, will now take over the newly created post of group vice president for the tire, mechanical goods, footwear and general-products divisions; Vice President George R. Vila, 48, a Wesleyan-trained chemist...
This mixture does not succeed on the screen as it might in print. Because the disparate elements remain inconclusive, it is melodrama that emerges most clearly...
...company that does succeed in providing prompt and efficient service, the rewards are well worth the effort. Starting in 1903, Detroit Edison Co. began giving customers free light bulbs, largely as a publicity stunt, soon went on to free electric cords and fuses. Last year the company sent 275 repairmen on 160,000 fuse calls, 138,000 stove-service assignments, 456,000 other appliance missions, charging nothing for labor and only for parts totaling more than $1. The company knows that nothing cuts electricity sales faster than a dead light bulb, a dead dishwasher, a dead freezer. And though...