Word: wilson
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Other reassuring facts in Washington's week of survey: ¶ Because of the promise shown by Thor, the National Security Council reversed a three-month-old economy order by now-retired Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson cutting back research-and-development production of Thor test missiles from four a month to two. New quota under the NSC order: four a month. In sanctioning a step-up in Thor production the NSC did not rule out the Army's competitive, "hand-tooled" Jupiter, which may well go into stockpile production with Thor. Reason for production of both, with resulting complication...
...presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment put on the shoulders of industry. Swope retired in favor of Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson in 1939, and was named chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, but returned to the G.E. controls for the two years (1942-44) that Wilson served as vice chairman of the War Production Board, stepped down again when Wilson returned...
Biographer Coit tells in full and flattering detail the nature of Baruch's services to the U.S. from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of atomic energy. She also uses Baruch as a peg on which to hang gratuitous, chapter-length histories of Woodrow Wilson's Administration, World Wars I and II. the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, etc. Standing at the cribside of modern history, Author Coit is footnotoriously conscientious...
...varsity will open its season with only two returning starters, Capt. Tom Woolston and George Harrington. But the pair led team scoring last season, and should be a reliable nucleus for Wilson's squad...
...Floyd Wilson, Crimson coach, regards tonight's contest as crucial in shaping team morale. "If we can get through the first couple of games, we'll be all right," he commented...