Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing fast, errorless baseball, behind expert pitching by Paul Derringer who allowed only six hits, the Reds won, 2-to-1. After the game, opinion about Owner Crosley's experiment was divided between league officials, who hope night baseball may increase attendance, and their underlings, whose adverse views were sympathetically publicized by baseball reporters who shared them...
...harkened to inflation warnings, and the American Scrap Exporters Conference learned that only 10% to 15% of the iron & steel junk shipped abroad went indirectly into armaments. The New York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week was the 44th annual meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
...planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away...
...than a statue, can still be less impressive, since its effort to achieve reality calls attention to its failure. Hollywood producers, though most of them expect color to arrive eventually, were still timidly dubious last week. That it costs about 30% more than black & white production (for stronger lighting, expert cameramen, special cameras and added film and processing cost) was only a minor reason for their feeling...
...process was simple. Staffmen wrote and edited their copy much shorter than usual. Expert stenographers typed it in two-column measure, tapped out headlines on special Remington portables with extra-large letters. Editors then pasted stories and headlines upon heavy cardboards the size of a newspaper page. Staff cartoonists inked in column-rules, dashes, decorations. Clippings from back numbers were pasted into place for the mastheads, weather reports, departmental headlines, etc. The whole was photo-engraved, cylinder plates cast, sent to press...