Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...male colleagues would bother to bat against the Phillies' Robin Roberts to get their baseball stories. But Denny McCluggage is willing and able to tool a skittish sports car through a major race, or rocket down a mountainside in a ski meet to give her stories an expert's touch. Her bylined stories are often self-consciously worded, but they usually sparkle with a personal flair. "There's a certain feeling that one gets in skiing and in driving a car-a fast car," she explains. "It's that subtle control of divergent forces that makes...
...even used a retired 72-year-old secretary in Boston. Another line of attack is through increasing office mechanization. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. has recently set up a highly mechanized office in Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines in a central transcription room, where expert typists quickly do the work. Yet mechanization is not the final answer. The girls find the work boring and faceless. And a machine can't go out on its lunch hour and buy a birthday present for the boss's wife...
...minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James A. Van Fleet) was able to drive the Communists out of Greece...
...economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow...
...lines, sell off its Rambler line to Chrysler. Instead, he emphasized, A.M.C. will go ahead with tooling and bring out a complete line of new designs for 1958. In addition, A.M.C. will "pursue a dynamic program of acquisition and further diversification," with the help of Wolfson, an expert in acquisitions...