Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should like to express my appreciation and enthusiasm for the wonderful spread which you gave us. The color reproduction of the Brooks R-1953 is, I think, the finest that I have ever seen in a magazine...
...many professional cartographers, however, this is not enough. In their maps, they want to show the actual configuration of the territory. To give these true pictures of the earth's surface, cartographers do not have to rely on some color scheme, with different colors representing different heights. With sufficient time, skill, and patience, they can actually sketch into the map the various mountains, valleys, and other land formations...
...David Sarnoff, who will remain chief executive officer, Burns will manage a vastly diversified electronics empire that has tripled its earnings since World War II, yet last year suffered a $7,500,000 drop in profits (to some $40 million), largely because of its expensive research and development in color TV. "RCA is paying a necessary price to develop color TV," says Burns. "Like all developments, there is an incubation period that costs money, then a rapid rate of growth when the product is right for the market and pays off." Burns will also have to deal with charges...
...Central's installation of pushbutton traffic controls is only the latest example of a great revolution sweeping U.S. railroads (see color pages). Since World War II, the industry has poured some $12 billion into new engines, new tracks and trains, a host of futuristic electronic gadgets. As a result of their increased efficiency, the 113 Class 1 U.S. railroads (more than $3,000,000 annual revenue) have been able to cut their road mileage from 249,000 mi. in 1929 to about 220,000 mi. today, the number of locomotives from 61,300 to 34,000, the number...
...feelings to inanimate objects. The poorest have the quality of a grownup reaching too far for effect ("this little incinerator of so many lost dreams that is called ash-tray"), and a weakness for the repeated metaphor that finds nights, houses, clouds and tears all to be the color of blood. Yet the best are written with undeniable charm, and in much the same headlong fashion that a child runs...