Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven other Congressmen. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed $25,000." At those prices, Johnson suggested, it would be cheaper to use commercial airlines...
...young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters too cold for spawning. The British government is now raising special oysters at Conway, in Wales, and suspends cement boxes in the water to give the larvae a chance to settle out of reach of the whelk tingles and the slipper limpets lurking below...
...House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
Last week, under able President William J. Murray Jr., McKesson passed a milestone. Announcing that sales for the year ending June 30 were a record $356.6 million, with a net $8,766,345, the company declared the first special dividend (25?) in its 116-year history...
This week, Behr-Manning began foiling imitators. Henceforth, its trademark will be stamped with a special ink on every piece of Norzon. Even when hidden by the lining, the stamp will show up under an X-ray machine such as many shoe stores now use for fitting...