Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressionists painted realistically before they turned to abstraction. Nine of them got through the 1930s painting government murals. "The most important thing for all of us was the WPA," says Willem de Kooning, recognized leader of the movement since the death of 44-year-old Jackson Pollock in an auto accident in 1956. The WPA was important in more than one way. It enabled the larval abstractionists to live by painting, established them as professionals and helped to produce the reaction that turned them to, abstraction in the 1940s...
Entrance Requirement. In Wilmington, Calif., arrested for auto theft, William P. Loudermilk explained: "I only took the car so I could pick up my buddy who's getting out of San Quentin...
...Auto racing has boomed in Britain since the war. On the runways and perimeters of abandoned wartime aerodromes, car-crazy Britons race one another every weekend, and on such tracks, Hawthorn and Moss learned the rudiments of racing...
Economists noted two major industries where the quickening business tempo was coming clear. In construction, private housing starts continued to rise in June to a rate of 1,090,000, highest since the boomtime year of 1956. There was even a small but bright spot of light in the auto industry. Although July stocks of unsold cars and trucks amounted to 695,000 units, it was the smallest inventory for this time of year since July 1954. To help work off the rest of the load, Detroit carefully held back from rushing in to replenish dealer stocks, allowed shortages...
Died. Henry Farman, 84, Englishman who became one of the first flying Frenchmen (99 ft. in 1907), champion cyclist, auto racer, painter, planemaker, first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine over New York City (1908); of a heart ailment; in Paris. In 1908 Farman won the 50,000-franc Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize by flying (in a closed circle) the first kilometer-in-air over Europe, nine months later made the first city-to-city flight, a hop of 17 miles from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices...