Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spock (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Famed baby specialist begins a series on child care...
Monday. President Eisenhower ate a good breakfast, his first full meal since the heart attack. His fever subsided to normal. The oxygen tent was removed for brief intervals during the day, and Dr. Paul Dudley White, the famous heart and interview specialist (see below) returned to Boston...
Frantically, the stock specialists pleaded with brokers to talk their customers into canceling sell orders or, failing that, to help find some buyers. Finally, in desperation to get their big stocks open, the specialists did the only thing they could do: they started buying the stocks for their own accounts, gambling that the break was only temporary and that they would soon be able to get rid of the shares. One specialist was forced to lay out $618,000 to buy 25,000 shares of American Airlines; two others paid out $605,000 apiece for 22,000 shares...
...Wall Street the gloom hung thicker than London fog. Most knew that the specialists had bought all they could-stretching their financial resources close to the breaking point. Brokers felt that if Ike had taken a turn for the worse on Monday, many a specialist would have gone under...
...Paul Dudley White, world-famous heart specialist, flew in from Boston on a special Air Force transport plane and was whisked to the hospital in a blue Air Force limousine. Dr. White doubted that either the 27 holes of golf or the heavy food the President had eaten could bring on a heart attack. About four hours after Dr. White's arrival, Major John Eisenhower, the President's son, planed in from Washington...