Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably 30 men of the present somewhat cumbersome squad have shown definite possibilities. At the top of the list, not only because he is captain of the team but for his superior performances, is Eric Cutler, lanky 220 and 440 free-style expert who was undefeated last season in the latter event and who placed second to Ohio State's Stanhope in the N.C.A.A. 1500-meter final last spring. Rick has not been hindered at all this year by the arm injury that kept him out of competition during his Sophomore year, the result being that his prospects are good...
...France and 250-to-400 military planes for the U. S. (Even if each side loses ten planes a day, these figures if true mean that the air force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories and 400,000 workers at 5,000 planes per month by spring, but reckoned this figure a bit high. U. S. output may reach 900 per month in 1940, but the Allies cannot count on buying...
...Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having a cunning lust." The 60-year-old Premier, a schoolteacher's son, a forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted, he would find himself in the company of onetime President Ignacy Moscicki and onetime Foreign Minister Josef...
...Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
Information Please costs Canada Dry about $10,000 a week. Biggest piece of this budget ($5,400) goes for air time on 60 NBC-Blue network stations. The expert Big Three get something like $450 an appearance, Interlocutor Fadiman, $750 (before Canada Dry came along they all got $40 to $50 a sitting). Guest experts, one or two a week, get $150 up. Biggest guest offer reported so far (and so far unaccepted) : $500 to Eleanor Roosevelt. Canada Dry considers this $10,000 a week well-spent. Since it started sponsoring Information Please, a year ago last week, Canada...