Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan, the output of an iron foundry was increased 44% by a U.N. technical mission. A forgotten village in Mexico tripled its population, opened a cinema and sent seven times as many children to school within three years after the World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
Citation: "Scholar, medical research expert, and physician to the children of the world...
Every water expert knows that there is no quick and simple way to avert the threat of shortages. One proposed remedy is the regional water commission of nonpolitical experts to tackle the problem for an entire valley or watershed; such commissions are in operation in Boston, Los Angeles, suburban Washington. To plug two big leaks, the Government is pressing farmers to replace open irrigation ditches with more efficient concrete pipe, industry to conserve water by re-using supplies...
...risk it all for $16,000. If he wins, he has another week to worry about whether he will go for $32,000. If he wins that, he has still another week of anguished self-examination. Should he quit with his $32,000? Or, with the help of any expert he chooses, should...
...week before the first show was televised, 14,000 people, hopefully eying the jackpot, had begged to be contestants. The lucky two chosen for the first show: Mrs. Thelma Bennett, a pretty housewife from Trenton, N.J. who is an expert on the movies, and Redmond O'Hanlon, a New York cop, who has five children and a wide knowledge of Shakespeare. Mrs. Bennett missed out on the $8,000 (the question: Name the Columbia movie which won almost all the 1934 Oscars, its stars and its director*), but was sent home with a nice consolation prize...