Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consequence, fantastic amounts are often spent for the election of Senators and Representatives. One expert estimates that, in populous states, over $5 million may be required to elect a Senator. Federal law condones expenditures of one-tenth this size. The task of finding campaign funds often places the newly-elected Senator at the service of some interest group that has supported him, whether or not he obtained the money in payment for future services...
Paul M. Doty, associate profesor of Chemistry, has been chosen to give the 1956 Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Lecture. An expert on biological polymers, vital substances made up of extremely large molecules, he will lecture at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, in the University Museum...
Federation's Future. Chief Minister Manley firmly believes that Jamaica's economy can support the growing demand. He has launched an island-wide land reform program, buying land from big holders and distributing it to peasants. With irrigation projects, expert advice and new crops, he hopes eventually to make Jamaica's 2,000,000 tillable acres prosperously support 2,000,000 people. His slogan: "For every man an acre and for every acre...
...flag, mother, and corruption." Ever since the row about the $2,500 campaign contribution to South Dakota's Senator Francis Case (TIME. Feb. 20-27), Johnson had managed to be someplace else when there was talk of a full-scale investigation of lobbying. Now, having taken his expert soundings, he moved swiftly to the head of the investigation parade...
...President Eisenhower was giving the go-ahead on the release of 88,000 Ibs. of U-235 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), one atomic expert warned that there are still some major technical roadblocks in the way of "practical, low cost nuclear power." Progress from here on, said Sylvania Electric Products' Engineer Stanley B. Roboff, "will be only as fast as we can develop new and better materials for use in reactors...