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2 unusual facts about Herbert S. Fairbank


Herbert S. Fairbank

In 1957 he was the first recipient of the Thomas H. MacDonald Award for outstanding contributions to highway progress.

Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

It had been known as the Fairbank Highway Research Station for Herbert S. Fairbank, an official at FHWA's predecessor Bureau of Public Roads.


Cottolene

The N. K. Fairbank Corporation of Chicago seized on this glut and created a product catering to late-19th-century America's growing infatuation with labor-saving packaged foods for the "dainty" (lard-free) diet.

Herbert S. Bigelow

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.

Herbert S. Goldstein

The synagogue services came first, and then came the gymnasium and the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Globally, he fought for the survival and transplantation of European Jewry as an activist in the Vaad Hatzalah and the Agudath Israel.

Herbert S. Hadley

During his four years as chancellor, the University also founded the George Warren Brown Department of Social Work, which later became its own school within the university and one of the top-ranked social-work programs in the United States.

Herbert S. Lewis

In Ethiopia, Lewis studied the both the history of the Oromo (Galla) Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar and the lives of contemporary Oromos from 1958–60 and 1965–66.

Herbert S. Okun

After retiring from the foreign service, he served as chief aide to former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen in the talks to end the slaughter resulting from the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Lewis M. Branscomb

These years, and his interactions with scholars as diverse as Clyde Kluckhohn, Merle Fainsod, William Fairbank, and Edward Purcell, kindled a lifelong interest in broad policy issues.

Mayer Lehman

He served as the director of The Hamilton Bank, The American Cotton Oil Company, The Union Oil Company of Providence, Rhode Island, and The N.K. Fairbank Company of Chicago.

Theodore H. White

White graduated from Harvard in 1938 summa cum laude (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was a classmate), with a degree in Chinese history and studies, the first student of John K. Fairbank.

Walter S. Dickey

He was chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and was to help engineer the victory of Herbert S. Hadley, the first Republican governor of Missouri since Reconstruction.


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