Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreshadowing the fruition of that talent is the earliest of the 23 drawings with which Author Lehmann-Haupt records the growth of Dore's style. It is the childhood vision of his Strasbourg schoolroom. Its squirming, unposed action bespeaks an eye that never let go of much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died...
That Silly Morgan celebrated his marriage by making his stage debut in a vaudeville skit written for him by a friend. His brother, finding that Wuppermann lacked marquee appeal, had taken the name of Morgan. Frank adopted it, too, and in 15 years built it into a Broadway asset (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rosalie, The Band Wagon, etc.). In the early '30s he went to Hollywood for keeps...
...granite-jawed Joseph C. Grew, longtime U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, spoke up "unofficially" in favor of letting the Japanese people keep their symbolic Mikado. Said he: "The Emperor did not want war." Once the military clique surrounding the throne is defeated, the fanatical cult of Shinto "can be an asset, not a liability...
...mutual-assistance pact signed with Britain in 1939; 2) a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939; 3) a friendship and nonaggression pact signed with Germany in 1941. All were hedges against Turkey's old fear of Russia, which has always wanted Turkey's greatest asset: the Straits (Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus), linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...
Growing Pains. If the war lasted beyond 1946, Columbia Metals would be a solid asset to the U.S. But now it is no great threat against vast Alcoa. The new plant will not get into operation for a year, and then will turn out only a piddling 50 tons of alumina daily (the five West Coast plants use over 30 times that amount). Alumina from clay, in this small quantity, will cost from $75 to $80 per ton compared to Alcoa's present West Coast price of about $60. But Columbia Metals' smart president, James O. Gallagher...