Word: know-how
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...from Obscurity. In 1936 he formed a friendship with young Miguel Alemán (who was twelve years his junior) that lifted him from bureaucratic obscurity to high office. Alemán saw use for the older man's efficiency and administrative know-how ; Ruiz Cortines admired Alemán's energy and imagination. As Alemán rose from governor of Veracruz to Interior Minister, he took Ruiz Cortines along as administrative assistant. Then, when the governorship of Veracruz became vacant in 1943, Alemán helped get the job for his faithful friend...
...Angeles, Strauss's predecessor at the AEC, Gordon Dean, was less inhibited by official responsibility. "America must realize," said he, "that the Russians have a strong atomic potentiality, strong scientific talent, great engineering know-how, vast deposits of ore, and the police state in which all these things can be effectively combined. Under such conditions it would be both foolish and extremely dangerous for America to assume Malenkov was lying...
...Ventures president has been one of the most successful operators in Canadian mining ever since he went to Canada from the U.S. in the early '20s with a nest egg of $30,000 in cash. Lindsley, a Harvard classmate of Franklin Roosevelt, got his initial capital and mining know-how operating an iron mine in Oregon, but it was in Canada that he came into...
...This first race showed they had the ability and know-how which had been the big question marks this spring...
...turn the city's strikes into riots required only a little Communist know-how. The Reds moved in with a front called The Committee Against the High Cost of Living, and called on the workers to assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into...