Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia owing to the economic methods employed by that country. We must, however, do so, and we can do so with hopes of success. We have many technical advantages. Our forests are better situated, our waterways are better and shorter, our men and horses are better provisioned, and the skill and efficiency of our workers are higher than those of the conscripted workers of Russia...
...basement of U. S. industry are bargain counters on which lie many slightly worn companies, awaiting buyers with the cash and skill to restore their earning power. Recently Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (electric-equipment, heavy machinery, farm equipment) has been revealed as such a buyer. Last fort night it acquired the business of Advance Rumely Corp., unprosperous maker of farm machinery (TIME, April 27). Last week it again went forth to shop. This time it angled (with cash plus stock) for the unprofitable electrical business of American Brown Boveri Electric Corp. Boveri was formed in 1925 to succeed New York...
...author gives a rapid but excellent picture of the Russian people under the Tsarist regime. This is done with a skill which would make the book worth reading if nothing further were said. Next, the Bolsheviks are followed through their various vicissitudes with outlines of how these troubles were handled. Fortunately, the writer never allows himself to become enmeshed in the labyrinth of Soviet political structure but only considers the various commissions which wield the real power. For this reason his exposition is unusually lucid even if rudimentary...
After this foundation has been well laid, the special aptitudes of the young officer are taken into account. Special skill in trade promotion and protection, in office organization and in economic analysis will lead to the high places of Consul General in London, in Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there...
...There, at her daughter Lady Ward's Villa Rosemary, the cold grew worse. Bronchial complications set in; her heart became affected. Dr. Robert Louis Levy, chief of the cardiac department of New York's Presbyterian Medical Center, was summoned by plane from Paris, but oxygen and his skill were no match for pneumonia and an aged heart. When Ambassador Edge, at the personal request of President Hoover, telephoned Cap Ferrat next morning he was told that Mrs. Reid had died quietly ten minutes before. Her body was taken to Paris, to the home of Ogden Mills, which General...