Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week three Chicago holders of one of these issues (for $1,400,000) filed a petition against Ben Bendix in South Bend, Ind. (home of Bendix Aviation Corp.) asserting that his debts amounted to $3,000,000, his assets about $500,000. Said Bendix, sadly: "This is the biggest blow of my life...
Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet...
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend...
...Oliver Chilled Plow" in 1868. Although the first metal plow had been made in 1837, Oliver's chilled cast-iron model was such an improvement that he has been regarded ever since as the father of the modern plow. Last week Oliver Farm Equipment Co. of South Bend, Ind. proudly announced the "Raydex" base and point, "greatest advance in plow-making" since 1868-the first entirely machine-made plow base...
...effectively with Britain and France in opposing the march of their three opponents, without involving herself in certain or even probable war. behind these peaceful methods will remain that without which they might successfully be challenged: the certainly to superior force. persons who would do nothing, or who would bend every effort in an attempt to isolate the United States, are combating the laws of economics, mob-psychology, science, and reason, for on any one of these scores their attempt is utterly futile. To do so is, moreover, to deny the United States its only constructive defense--cooperation...