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...Abstractions for abstraction's sake," he still insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paint & Pistols | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...quantity is short, quality is a lot better. There would not be much of the junk that cluttered up counters during the war. Some of the newer gadgets are precision jobs. Samples: a dump truck with a hydraulic lift; a scale model of a concrete mixer that pours real cement out of a hand-operated drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Claus Reports | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...anything more had been needed to cement Gaitán's position as Liberal leader, the municipal elections did it. They also proved-680,438 votes to 524,974-that Conservative political power is still minority power. Conservative President Ospina Pérez, who already had Liberals in his Government, got ready to move in further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Power & Place | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Panama and the Philippines. To overcome the world dollar shortage, it has set up a complex system of bartering currencies and goods. The corporation provided the dollars to buy raw materials from Sweden for a British manufacturer, took payment in British goods. It also started a $3,000,000 cement plant in Jamaica with capital in English sterling, machinery and supplies from Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Idealism, Inc. | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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