Word: blacksmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EMILE GILIOLI and MICHEL ELIA-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. Fifty sculptures by two Parisians. The polished-bronze abstracts of Gilioli, formerly a blacksmith, are forged with a purity of line that is matched by Elia's virginal Arp-like marbles, which more immediately echo the human figure. Through...
...German. Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
Following the Fumes. The rise to riches of the Fisher brothers was a Detroit success story second only to that of Henry Ford. The sons of a Norwalk, Ohio, blacksmith and carriage maker, the Fisher boys learned their trade at their father's forge, followed the gasoline fumes to Detroit as the horseless carriage appeared. Charles joined his older brother Fred in a job at the Wilson Carriage Co. In 1908, the brothers teamed up with an uncle and formed Fisher Body to make auto bodies...
...Deere & Co., whose distinctive green and yellow colors have for years identified its tractors, farm machinery and, lately, its light industrial equipment. After all, almost every inch of Illinois was plowed, furrowed, dug or smoothed at one time or another by some piece of Deere machinery. Since Blacksmith John Deere perfected the first steel plow in 1837-the plow that broke the plains-Deere has become the leading seller of farm equipment...
...Brazil nuts went ahead anyway. U.S. engineers converted an old foundry to make Willys' castings, began building the sprawling, efficient plant at Sao Bernardo. The Brazilians set about lining up parts suppliers. A manufacturer of hypodermic needles converted his production to gas and oil lines, and a blacksmith bid to supply wheels. Recalls Willys Treasurer Paulo Quartim Barbosa: "We gave him an order for 500 wheels. They weren't quite square-but almost. Our technicians found they had eight protruding points. But we gave him another chance, and when he sent them back to us again two months...