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...fine new Diesel tanker, the 10,044-ton Skandinavia, made fast to a New York dock. Built in Germany for Texas Corp. as part payment for pre-war U. S. crude oil, she had reached and crossed the blockaded Atlantic without adventure...
...storing X-rays in hospitals demanded a non-inflammable film. Cellulose nitrate was highly inflammable. Cellulose acetate was not. Made by treating cellulose (purified cotton linters) with acetic acid and acetic anhydride, cellulose acetate was costly because the method of extracting the two acids from the wood was crude. But Eastman's chemists found a better way, and in 1930 Tennessee Eastman's first cellulose acetate unit began turning out the raw material for "safety film." That done, the chemists turned their test tubes on acetate yarn, a year later had a factory producing the synthetic yarn...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...
...absurd to criticize Grosz on the score of techniue, for he is a polished craftsman. In most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem...
...familiar and crude census of the "gainfully occupied'' will be made more searching by a long list of questions: during the week of March 24-30 were you employed, if so was it with private industry or Government agency? If unemployed, since when? Were you seeking work? Have you had previous experience? Was your unemployment due to vacation, illness, or strike...