Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied a major ingenuity which Artist Berdecio calls "kinetic perspective" by which distortions are so anticipated and utilized as to make the mural...
Elektro is seven feet tall, weighs 260 Ibs., is clad in gleaming aluminum. He is operated by 48 electrical relays (circuits actuated by current variations in other circuits) which control his eleven motors by remote control. He can walk forward or backward, with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing...
...private enterprise the Federal Theatre Project last week handed over the biggest money-maker in its history: the Swing Mikado. After May 1, Chicago's Marolin Corp. will control the show, re-employ its all-Negro cast of 80. They will provide new sets since the present ones, being Government-owned, cannot be bought. They will up the admission from $1.10 to a $2.20 top, move the show from Broadway's outskirts to pleasure-seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because...
...closed its doors, did not reopen for nearly five months. Since then the U. S. has changed from a debtor to creditor nation and its markets are less susceptible to foreign liquidation. Also since 1914 the Government has acquired, in the Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within a few days (see p. 15), and as the emotionally exhausted stockmarket fluttered weakly in an attempt to keep up with hourly news from Europe, Government officials busied...
...jawed Charles G. Guth became a vice president of Loft, Inc. in 1929, immediately began gunning for control of the $13,000,000 candy-&-restaurant chain. At the 1930 stockholders' meeting, a police cordon was needed to keep the scrap verbal. That year Charles Guth collected enough proxies to make himself president. In 1935, embattled President Guth resigned. Instead of ending, the Guth-Loft squabble thereupon entered a new and noisier phase...