Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventeen minutes after the plane crunched to a stop on the ice cube, the men were safely in the air, bound for Newfoundland and home. The expert SAC crews who had participated in the rescue got a reward of Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals, and the 20-man Ice Skate team came away with precious logbooks and a deserving niche in the saga of exploration. And behind them, still floating, was the disintegrating chip that remained of Ice Skate-a symbol of the mysterious mountains that crumble year after year before the determination of courageous...
Commodity prices also rose during the week (the Dow-Jones spot index was up 2.40 points to 160.08, futures up 2.03 to 154.55) on the belief that Congress will boost support prices, causing an increase in overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...
Supplementing his knowledge of philosophy, "Owen is an expert on Greek science and apparently finds its impossible to teach philosophy courses without integrating the scientific aspects," Firth commented...
...machine that is causing all the excitement among the giants is put out by the pygmy-sized (104 employees) Elox Corp. of Royal Oak, Mich. It will bring, said a Ford tool expert, not only a change in carmaking but a "quiet revolution in the metal workings trades." Elox (for "electrical oxidation") machines not only make the machining of metal faster and cheaper, but they enable U.S. industry to do jobs it has never done before. Said Jerry Cornwell, purchasing agent for Avco's Lycoming Division, a prime missile contractor: "We're doing things that just couldn...
...word invented by Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson to denote clients with uncounted millions...