Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Artist. When, three years ago, Chilian came tumbling down in one of the worst earthquakes in South American history, Lazaro Cardenas, then President of Mexico, offered to build its harassed citizens a school. His successor, President Avila Camacho, decided to add murals. This thought occurred usefully to President Camacho at a time when he had a good muralist very much on his hands...
...planners had one costly solution: add 10,945,000 tons of new pig-iron capacity. But that solution merely put the finger again on the real problem of how to get more steel at once: the steel shortage is first & foremost a scrap shortage. If the scrap shortage can be solved, steel production from present plants can be upped at least 6,000,000 tons a year, right away...
...TIME, June 22-WPBabeldom "Title-of-the-Week"-you might add the following...
...questionable. Sugar bags have soared from 18 to 65? each, oil from 2 to 5? per gallon, steel plates from 2 ¾ % to 22? per pound, railroad ties from 90? to $1.60 each, wages from 80 and 90? to $1.30 and $1.40 per day, etc. To this one must add the extra cost of transportation caused by the storing of sugar in a few predetermined Cuban ports, and also the burden of war taxes...
...debut of the ten-station Atlantic Coast Network was deliberately demure. It began by relaying as sustainers a pair of BBC programs: London News (weekdays, 10:45 p.m., E.W.T.) and Foreign Correspondent (Tues. & Wed., 8 p.m., EWT). Next month the network plans to add band and symphony concerts and news commentaries from Washington. But radiomen are still watching Bulova intently for other reasons...