Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More Wonder. Scully got his start as a flying-saucer expert by association with talented Oilman Silas M. Newton of Denver, who, he says, locates oil deposits by their microwaves (microwaves do not penetrate rock). Through Newton, Scully met a mysterious "Dr. Gee," who does similar feats by detecting "magnetic waves" (which do not exist) with a magnetron (a radio transmitter tube, not a detection device). Flying saucers, says Dr. Gee (quoted by Scully), travel among the planets by magnetism. Their 3½-ft. crewmen have perfect teeth with no cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer...
...look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert that during World War I he was appointed boss of all U.S. plywood production...
...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...
Sleepless Nights. As an expert, Thompson convinced cattlemen that high-priced bulls were cheapest in the end, because of the vast improvement the animals made in their herds. He has collected as much as $90,000 in fees in a single year. (For the Thornton sale...
...that launched the career of Lauren Bacall and pretty much let the Hemingway story alone. Then, in 1948, they borrowed one of the novel's episodes for the climax of Key Largo. At last the studio has made a film of the book itself. The result is an expert piece of hard-boiled cinema...