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Word: torth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next three committee sessions Worth squirmed unhappily on the committee griddle. In an abject recantation Witness V. Torth agreed that there was no evidence of corruption in the B-36 procurement program,* that neither Defense Secretary Louis Johnson nor Air Secretary Stuart Symington nor top Air Force officers had been guilty of impropriety in buying the Consolidated bomber, that it was "ridiculous" to say (as the anonymous statement had suggested) that Board Chairman Floyd Odium and the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had contributed $6,500,000 to the Democratic campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the Author | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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