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SCIENCE and industry are dependent for much of their progress on the existence and authority of master men to whom the less experienced and less endowed may turn for direction and advice. During periods of stress or emergency their value is readily recognised and then services eagerly sought; in normal times there is a danger that their existence may he forgotten because of their very modesty and the quiet and unobtrusive manner in which they work; but their presence in the background as an ultimate source of effective authority is essential. Those whom the community choose as such counsellors are men of wide experience, of outstanding ability: men whose word is accepted without question. Often they have retired from the routine of daily duty and, unencumbered by masses of detail, they are thus better able to see a problem in its entirety and to set it in the frame of their whole experience.
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The Gas Referees and the Gas Industry. Nature 133, 851 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133851a0
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