Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 19th century, coal and iron built Glasgow into Britain's second largest city (a rank now contested by Birmingham), and Scots flocked down from their hill farms until a third of the whole population lived within 20 miles of Glasgow. When depression came in the 1930s, heavy industry closed down, and one of every three working Scots was unemployed. A group of Scottish businessmen resolved it should never happen again, and formed the Scottish Development Council to launch "industrial estates." On these they built factories, furnished power and water, built homes for workers, and invited manufacturers to move...
Then, in the 1930s, CalTech's Chemist Linus Carl Pauling attacked the useful but mysterious bonds from the new angle of quantum theory. He found that the "resonance" of the atoms (their internal vibration) is the source of the forces that hold molecules together. His book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is one of the classics of modern science...
...years) to send for brother Spyros (now president of 20th Century-Fox) and brother George (now president of United Artists Theater Circuit). The brothers bought a nickelodeon in St. Louis in 1914, with smart showmanship and incredible energy parlayed it into a coast-to-coast theater chain by the 1930s, became one of the most potent forces in moviedom. The triumvirate's closely linked fortunes (they even pooled their incomes, drawing what they needed from a common fund) were partially severed in 1952 when 20th Century-Fox and the Skouras theater empire were divorced in a federal antitrust action...
Levine himeself was once the lastest thing. With Ben Shahn, he dominated the "Proletarian" school of painting fashionable in the laste 1930s. Slum-born (in South Boston) a youthful hater of cops and capitalists, Levine rightly thought himself "equipped to punish." He used his genious for caricature and opulent colors like a jolting left hook to attack what he considered the evils of society. Now a hatchet-faced 39, Levine has simmered down some. "Don't call me angry," he says, with a thin smile. More important, Levine has steadily improved both as a painter and as an ovserver...
Colors for Hours. Back in the 1920s Kiesler* pioneered both "floating" building (cantilevered out from masts, like suspension bridges) and "spiral" architecture (abolishing the division between floors) which Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright later developed. In the 1930s he deeply influenced today's theater design by blueprinting expandable stages and semicircular projection screens. In the 1940s he painted ideally simple theater sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood...