Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite a woman"; Gauguin was a failure who ran off to the South Seas because he couldn't make the grade, who painted distorted pictures over which "the shapely natives had every reason to bring libel suits." "At their worst," said Mr. Coburn firmly, "[their paintings] resembled the crude elemental expressions which nitwits affix to sidewalks, barn doors and elsewhere-especially elsewhere." To him Boston was "a community which today possesses the best school of painting in existence anywhere...
...program of Mexican music was worked out by Mexico's swart, amiable, unruly-locked Composer-Conductor Carlos Chavez. A collection of ancient instruments in the Mexican National Museum, and such tomes of conquistador times as the Codex Florentinus (a compilation of Indian folklore, with many a crude illustration-see cut), were all the proof Composer Chavez could give that his fanciful reconstruction called Xochi-pili-Macuilxochitl after the Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec jam session. Flutes and pipes shrilled and wailed, a trombone (subbing...
Against disruption of its rubber supply, best U. S. hedge is reclaimed rubber, which last year furnished 32% of the rubber used in manufacture, could furnish more in a pinch. But with a reduced or interrupted supply of new crude, reclamation would gradually dwindle away. For new supply, the U. S. has little more than a start. U. S.-owned plantations in Latin America are still on an experimental scale, retarded in growth by inadequate labor, poor transportation and the reliance of the U. S. on sources across the Pacific. Rubber-growing in the Philippines, Florida and California is still...
...things in particular accounted for the brimming gasoline tanks. With Germany out of the market, with French and English car-owners rationed to spoonfuls, World War II, after the first flurry, had reduced U. S. crude and refined petroleum exports by some 20%. Still more potent was a prolonged U. S. winter which had unexpectedly boomed the demand for fuel oil by 28% over the year before. Result: running crude through the stills to get oil for heating, refiners as a by-product ran up millions of gallons of gasoline...
...Army & Navy Munitions Board would have one less strategic material to worry about if U. S. industry could manufacture a cheap and reliable substitute for rubber. For 97% of the U. S.'s crude rubber (1939 imports 497,212 long tons) comes over 10,000 miles of sea from the Middle East, where commerce raiders might romp in wartime...