Word: tsar
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...same week that Donald Nelson helped President Roosevelt pick a real No. 1 man of U.S. industry-Union Pacific's able president, William Martin Jeffers-for rubber tsar (see p. 77), he went on to pick three other men out of the top drawer...
...rubber tsar, veteran trainman William Martin Jeffers, 66-year-old president of Union Pacific...
Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol...
Damn it, men, things are in a hell of a fix and a tough job's got to be done, he said in substance after Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson named him tsar to produce and conserve rubber. The actual words are the ones the hardboiled, red-faced, Irish Bill Jeffers spoke one day in January 1922 to trainmen clustered around a red-hot, pot-bellied stove in the Hanna, Wyo. depot...
...That a rubber tsar be appointed to carry out the program, serve as final authority on all problems, direct rationing and conservation...