Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leon Henderson was fighting mad last week and showed it as only Leon can. He even threatened to quit as price tsar...
With demand soaring, Pacific Coast lumber production (almost half the total) has lagged behind 1941 every month this year, mainly for want of skilled and willing lumberjacks. Last week Donald Nelson found the situation so critical that he named a West Coast lumber tsar, asked lumber workers to give up their vacations; operators to cut the best and most accessible lumber this year; State Governors to allow logs to be hauled on Sunday; draft boards to defer skilled lumber workers; all concerned to reduce labor turnover...
...Next day Tsar Petrillo melted somewhat. Said he: "We don't want to break the recording or transcription companies. . . . They have to live and we have to live. . . . We just aren't going to let them live at our expense. Maybe we will compromise. Maybe...
...Molotov was something to be proud or ashamed of. The silence may have given the Russian politician some protection from Nazi interference as he flew around in his big, lumbering Soviet plane. But no such protection has been deemed necessary for other important Allied figures (e.g., British Production Tsar Oliver Lyttelton, Harry Hopkins, General Brehon Somervell) after they had safely reached Washington or London...
...Other non-Germans who have received various classes of Order of the German Eagle: Benito Mussolini, General Francisco Franco, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines. Watson sent his back...