Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this situation, the old party battle between, moderates and radicals, intellectuals and unionists should intensify. Whatever the result, the Laborites clearly did not lose on Thursday because of Hugh Gaitskell, who ran a tough and expert campaign. Instead, the Labor Party lost because they failed to convince the voters that they offered a coherent and responsible alternative to a smoothly operating Tory government...
...Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones & Co. was sold in 1902 to Clarence Walker Barron, a self-taught finance expert from Boston, Barron kept the Journal hard on course...
...documentaries of tomorrow. The adventures of Colonel Edward McCauley, U.S.A.F. (William Lundigan), sometimes seem tailored to the familiar serial formula: Will the expedition land successfully on the moon? Will the space tanker explode? Will the colonel get lost among the stars? But the action is always trimmed closely to expert predictions. The show should spin into orbit...
...After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered up blocks of apartment houses, movie theaters, billiard halls and a tannery, raked in high profits from one speculative...
...Elbert Sunderland, 52, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.), was named president and chief executive officer of the trouble-torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director and vice...