Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deke Parsons kept working. A top naval ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
AMERICAN industry should find it -L. an opportunity rather than a danger. Do not be afraid of it." Thus did Washington Lawyer and Economist George Ball, an expert on investment abroad, exhort U.S. businessmen to take on a new challenge: the European Common Market. The common market, a vast trading zone of six European countries, will remove trade barriers among participating nations, allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe...
...zaibatsu grow bigger almost by the week. Fortnight ago Mitsui Bank President Kiichiro Sato, 65, a nimble-witted financial expert who has spent his entire life working for the Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...
...Millikin, 67, longtime (1941-56) Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
...Rattigan's expert script and Miss Page's phenomenal performances should not easily be passed...