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.