Word: successor
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...foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat...
...Beria and Malenkov had the doctored evidence ready. Some of Zhdanov's lieutenants were charged with engaging in corrupt practices, others were accused of pursuing "their own economic policies." One after another, the Zhdanovites disappeared. Virtually the entire Leningrad party apparat led by Peter Popkov, Zhdanov's successor as city secretary, was silently liquidated. In Moscow the purge carried away a clutch of notables, including the youngest member of the Politburo, State Planning Boss Nikolai Voznesensky. Dozens were executed...
...fill the gap left by the Navaho, North American pins its hopes on a trio of new planes on the drawing boards. In competition with Boeing, North American designers are at work on the WS-110 chemical-fuel bomber planned as a supersonic successor to the B-52 heavy bomber. It has also won the design competition for a new long-range interceptor and is working on a jet utility trainer that may also find a civilian market as a high-speed executive transport. Said a top North American executive: "We were disappointed, naturally, but we don't have...
That was the end of Farben as such. But it was the beginning of an amazing recovery by the free-enterprising successors to the cartel, which has resulted in bigger sales than their prewar parent ever had. In the postwar German boom, Farben's vigorous successor companies have won back far more of their immense prewar business and prestige than the most optimistic German had hoped for. Sales of the three biggest companies last year topped $1.09 billion, just over Farben's prewar total; and they are rising at the rate of 12% a year (but are still...
Dean Bundy expressed regret last night at Hoadley's resignation and said that he hoped a successor could be found before Registration in the fall...