Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob, the U. S. Department of Agriculture would not need to keep repeating, stressing...
Chicago obligingly furnished a list. It pointed to the offices of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., where sat Minnesota-born Eugene Morgan Stevens, golfer, fisherman, bond expert, and New York-born Frederick Tudor Haskell, trained in Chicago banking for 55 years. It pointed to the "biggest" Continental & Commercial National Bank with its Brothers Reynolds, Arthur of the potent Armour meatpacking interests, and, George McClelland, who politely declined in 1909 to be Taft's Secretary of the Treasury. It pointed to big but smaller banks, to the Chicago Trust Co., from whose roster of vice presidents the U. S. Chamber...
...metal, there has been a corresponding decrease in its popularity as an artistic medium. There are few good iron masters in the U. S.; the best known is Hunt Diederich whose works are popular in the homes of millionaires. The technique of iron work is exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar Brandt keeps his methods secret and will not let his workmen find out more about his processes than he can help. No one will ever know just how he made Rodman Wanamaker...
...SILENT HOUSE-Those charming poisons, administered by an expert Oriental (TIME...
...German magnates thought they knew another and better story. First in their thoughts, foremost in their speculations, was James Augustine Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel Corp., for 35 years an expert in marketing U. S. steel abroad. In 1893, Germans recalled, it was the 30-year-old Farrell, then general manager of the Pittsburgh Wire Co., who brought his company through the panic by selling half the plant's output in foreign markets. By 1901, when the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, Mr. Farrell was recognized as the outstanding candidate for the post of foreign sales...