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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200460008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 18, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/26: CIA-RDP75-000
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NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
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land ube~ra mm~n`d~"tidtfl-~d-? and policies, it is the regulation o
United States:.Tariff. Commission. they are`-women. but' . because the
T ix-memer. board is ' not ex.
that appeal know howto4get the work' done.
l the pla eb
actly
to many women in the first place.
has just been appointed to the. again. that he is not appointin
$20,000-a-year vacancy on the women to top `jobs:: :Just,. becau$
> reer Government economist who The President has" demonstrate
It investigates tariff and- foreign
trade - ' matters. - for the President,,:',
and Congress. In the words of the.
Government Manual, it is con? I
tinuously engaged' in the collection :..j1
of a wide range of technical and
economic data relating to the eco-
nomic conditions underlying com- .
,petition between domestic and for-'-,
eign industries'." If all this.sounds
"formidable, it also sounds complex..
-and a little dull.
In'-the second place, not many
women (or men; either, for that,
(her husband' is a coal ."'research'
f 'specialist' ;in ''the Interior Depart-.41
ment) is independent. 'voters
unaffiliated . with ' any political ' par,
f ty, she must have been chosen for
'',{?
a .former college teacher of eco-
nomics who has been 'in or close to.
Federal service. -since X950 with thee.:
[National Bureau' of Economic R&.'*
search, the Council of Economic
i Advisers, and the Central Intelll="
genreAgency,' lastly hea ing the
Tradee d . Services ,Div s i o n.,:F
These.were not sinecure, posts. _
Mrs. Thunberg is. the second' .
woman Mr.,,,Q4,nson' has named to :tt
what we woujd consider an unlike-.
ly spo`t. The first was Mrs. Virginia
Mae Brown, ,who last year joined
the Interstate Commerce Commis- f
Sion.-If anything -is. more intricate x
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