Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his model for "The Modern Gallery of Non-Objective Painting," which will be built (with Guggenheim money) next spring on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue (TIME, July 23 ). To some of the newsmen, impressed by Architect Wright but irreverent by nature, the model looked something like a big, white ice cream freezer...
...bearings? So when Billy Durant offered to buy Hyatt, Sloan jumped at the chance, sold out to Billy Durant for $13,500,000. At 41, with $5,000,000 in his pocket, he might have retired. Not Mr. Sloan. He stepped in as vice president of another Durant creation, United Motors Corp. When Durant merged U.M. with G.M., Sloan became a G.M. vice president...
...solve the Dominion's housing shortage. There would be legislation authorizing Canada's participation in international monetary agreements. A Veterans' Charter, something like the U.S.'s "G.I. Bill of Rights," would be created. But to Canadians the most interesting legislation in prospect involved the creation of a Canadian nationality and adoption of a Canadian flag...
Slow Start. This sudden interest in the Export-Import Bank, and the volume of prospective loans, was something new to the Bank. In the eleven years since its creation, it has loaned only $612 million (at a profit of $43 million...
Referring specifically to the clause in the document which provides that no country shall have more than one member on the executive board placed above the "permanent council," Professor Ulich, who is suspicious of the creation of "just another partisan political body," stated that "there are two prerequisites to the success of the organization. It must," he said, "represent the cultural aspirations of humanity as a whole, and not embody petty political conflicts. It must also, and this is of prime importance, have a thoroughly trained staff who are familiar with the customs and the language of the people with...