Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This alarming news came out of the 22nd annual American Petroleum Institute meeting held last week in San Francisco's Palace and St. Francis hotels. For five days the 3,000 attending oilmen attended round tables, listened to technical lecturers (and a slam-bang harangue by Oil Tsar Ickes), played golf at Del Monte, cavorted with Chinese-costumed information girls. The hotel's 40-ft. bar was so jammed that thirsty newsmen had to fight for a drink...
...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...
This week an executive order is expected to put the law into actual operation. It will also name a requisitioning tsar, probably tough-minded Brigadier General Philip B. Fleming, hitherto Wages & Hours administrator. OPMites eagerly awaited the order to see whether Administrator Fleming would be given real power to deal with non-cooperators...
...more than what SPAB said two weeks ago in ordering priorities for defense housing (TIME, Oct. 6). With most building materials earmarked for defense through priorities, non-defense builders would have to scramble for the rest, would doubtless have to curtail from 1941 levels. SPAB might logically make itself tsar of the building industry some day (as Bernard M. Baruch's World War I Industries Board did by requiring special permits for all projects involving more than $500). But it was not ready to go that far last week...
...this neat scheme all nosegays go to big, fast-moving, hard-punching Lewis Rosenstiel, tsar of the U.S. liquor industry, boss of No. 1 U.S. rectifier Schenley Distillers. In late 1938, dead-sure war was coming, Rosenstiel began bulwarking his company against war's impact. He pow-wowed with all his executives, warned them hard times were on the way. Then he started barking orders like an Army sergeant, did not stop until he was sure Schenley was as shortage-proof as Rosenstiel could make...