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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tons of grain a year, and where the worker spends 90% of his wages on food, a food crisis threatens. The situation is worst in the western lands, formerly German, where the Polish farmers brought from the east have never felt at home, and the collectives, built around the old Junker estates, have never prospered despite credits and tax exemptions...
...permitted to take along so much as one painting. To his aid came a young German painter, Emy Scheyer, one of the many women who found Jawlensky's combination of bearlike strength and artistocratic charm irresistible. She gave up painting to devote her life to promoting his work, built up her own collection to include more than 120 of Jawlensky's works, which, along with those of Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger, are now kept intact as a permanent Blue Four exhibit at the Pasadena Art Museum...
...Steelworkers Union Chief David J. McDonald formally opened a new office building at the Homestead plant, constructed out of a new kind of cost-cutting, space-saving stainless steel. Said Big Steel's President Hood: "This is the first true stainless-steel curtain-wall office building ever built. It marks the kickoff by U.S. Steel into a brand new market that has a potential demand for 500,000 tons of steel sheets yearly...
...boom had started abroad in anticipation of a huge increase in the free world's oil consumption-and of possible trouble when Egypt could legally take over the canal in 1968. Today, more than 1,500 steamships and motorships, totaling 7,500,000 gross tons, are being built around the world. Great Britain, leader in the field, is constructing more than 2,000,000 gross tons, cannot promise deliveries on new orders until 1962. France is building 73 tankers and dry-cargo ships totaling 465,462 gross tons. This month the German shipbuilding industry reached an alltime peak...
...brought about, largely, by U.S. Shipbuilder Daniel K. Ludwig, owner of the world's second largest private fleet. Last week Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., announced its future plans for two monstrous 103,000-ton oil and ore carriers-the world's biggest-to be built in its Kure, Japan shipyards...