Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President: I know that. That's why I want you to act. I want this problem solved from a business as well as from an expert standpoint...
Nobody could positively object to the past record of Chairman Howell on aviation because he had none. All he knows about flying he learned as a passenger on occasional flights over commercial airlines. This lack of expert knowledge, however, did not prevent him from announcing, after his commission's meetings last week in the White House Cabinet Room, that he would junket through Europe next month to size up the power and progress of foreign flying...
There was no orchestra, but the dancers' legs moved with the precision of an expert ballet. The three men in the automobile on a dirt road cleaving an expanse of brown Saskatchewan prairie all saw the same thing-20 dancing prairie chickens...
...Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China...
...Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high-school basketball and swimming teams for three years, he also played football. Instead of going on to college he played baseball with the San Francisco Seals, went to Salt Lake City for a year...