Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense officials stuck to their original line: this isn't anything we haven't anticipated. Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray took his vacation as scheduled; other top defense officials went off for the usual routine dinners and speeches across the country...
...top executives of a single private corporation in this country [i.e., the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which pays its top officers an average of $213,715 each] are paid more than the aggregate salary now paid to all the 250 or so federal officers to whom this bill applies...
...Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier and Foreign Minister went to smooth-talking Chou Enlai, the party...
From the Petersberg, the mountain-top headquarters on the Rhine of the Allied High Commission for Germany, Konrad Adenauer and his ministers descended to their capital at Bonn. At the federal chancellery they met with the directors of the Bank Deutscher Lander, West Germany's central bank. There they agreed to cut the mark from 30? to 22 ½? to bring it into line with sterling and other devalued currencies...
Page entered the last half inning with a three run lead, and once again a Coleman insurance run proved necessary. With none out, Olmo drove a homer into the left field stands. Page disposed of Snider easily, but Roy Campanella lofted a high fly which just cleared the top of the left field wall to make the score...