"man" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A dollar-a-year man, you know.
- J.P. Bickell, one of C.D. Howe's "dollar-a-year men" headed Victory Aircraft Ltd. as president and chairman of the board.
- During World War II Mr. Haas served as a dollar-a-year man in the Office of Defense Transportation.
- Mr. Stevens worked for the center as a dollar-a-year man, accepting no salary.
- The New Dealers feel the present political culture of scandal-hunting bears no comparison to the urgent years of "dollar-a-year men" who volunteered as executives in the recovery and war efforts.
- In Canada during World War II, C.D. Howe, Canada's "Minister of Everything", created a rearmament program using "dollar-a-year men".
- During World War II, he served as a dollar-a-year man on the War Production Board in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Last week, he recalled the "dollar-a-year" men of World War II, successful industrialists who sought to "give something back" to their country through public service.
- Along with other important businessmen and industrialists, Bickell was recruited by C. D. Howe to become one of the famous "dollar-a-year" men who headed up wartime industry and special projects.
- General Carpenter asked for one hundred and fifty billion dollars, fifteen hundred ambitious dollar-a-year men, three thousand able experts in mineralogy, petrology, mass production, chemical warfare and air-traffic time study.
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