Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again and again she says practically nothing and makes it seem funny. She almost, but not quite, renders the playwright's job superfluous...
...expand. But when bustling, 53-year-old Joe Block, grandson of Inland's founder, moved into the presidency 20 months ago, he brought some expansionist thinking with him. As vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS will provide some 23% of the world's electricity by 1980, predicts Samuel Untermeyer II, General Electric Co. reactor expert. Atomic power projects are increasing so fast that a recent $200 million Government program for peacetime industrial development of the atom by private companies "has been dwarfed before it is well under...
...outside world the corporation president is the embodiment of sleek self-assurance, but to those who know him best he is a hagridden worrier with an "almost masochistic capacity for self-criticism." So says Lyle M. Spencer, himself a president (of Science Research Associates) and personnel expert, in a report in the current Harvard Business Review on the results of a three-year quiz of the more than 950 members of the Young Presidents Club...
...Millar Burrows (435 pp.; Viking; $6.50), deal with the fascinating manuscripts-Biblical texts, commentaries and Essene writings-found in a cave near the Dead Sea by two Arab boys in 1947 (TIME, Sept. 5). Wilson's book is a graceful, thorough piece of reporting. Burrows, a Yale expert, analyzes the scrolls in detail, shows at precisely what points they may fill in chinks in Biblical history...