Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the Nazified Reichsbank, first prohibited the transfer of interest on German foreign debts and then evolved a system of control boards to balance imports and exports. Out of these equilibrist schemes grew the blocked currency accounts and the barter devices, with the Germans paying foreign exporters in special marks good only for German goods at a price lower than the internal price level. Boycotts and currency difficulties kept lopping off chunks of normal German trade with England, the U. S., and Soviet Russia, but export subsidies to the extent of 30% of the value of all German exports...
...there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special Wagner cycle put on not at the Fair Grounds but at the Metropolitan Opera House, and as the World's Fair entered its third week, even the Met's special cycle was playing to poor houses...
...editing of Sportswriter Vidmer's comment, were egregious examples of an Oxford Group technique which has slowly matured during the years Dr. Buchman has been at work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly that the world...
...other U. S. roads facing similar crises, Burt Wheeler has more drastic medicine in mind. Last week his committee reported favorably a bill to create a special railroad reorganization court which would permit recapitalizations of bankrupt roads only upon a basis of "expectable future earnings"-the average for the twelve years prior to the year in which the railroad went bankrupt. That day at the White House Franklin Roosevelt seconded the measure...
Thus a bold onset was followed by adroit changes of pace. Director Barr, whose fragile look is deceptive, stopped short at no dilettantism, worked like hell. Stage designing, posters, industrial design, children's art illustration and many an-other branch of art came in for special exhibitions, each worked up by the Museum's characteristic method: thorough research, orderly classification of the work shown, equal respect for every experimental artist whether probably great or palpably minor, explanatory notes for the public. Not all the Museum's shows have been revelations, some have been merely precious...