Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate production that calls for scriptwriters, stage director, musical director, arranger, piano accompanist, set designer and dress designers. Last week in her one-woman show in the Persian Room of Manhattan's staid old Plaza Hotel, Songbird Lisa Kirk used all of this paraphernalia to display as much of her shapely figure as the law allows. But between her entrance and exit in scanties, she did manage to sing...
Journalist Janson conceived Picto in 1938 but did not put it on public display until last fall, when it proved a hit at an inventors' exposition in Amsterdam. Since then, he has published a complete Picto course in his native Dutch (he plans courses in other languages) and has put 100 students through a first Picto correspondence course. Last week the first Dutch-Picto dictionary (2,000 Dutch words) was at the printer's in Amsterdam...
Orion & Olympus. At Farnborough last week, most of the big companies had some new engines to display. Bristol Aeroplane Co., whose economical Proteus turboprop powers the new Britannia airliner (TIME, Dec. 19), showed off a bigger, 5,000-h.p. Orion version slated for 1959 production and an improved Olympus turbojet engine rated at a whopping 16,000 Ibs. of thrust. De Havilland uncorked a new gadget: a Supersprite rocket engine that weighs only 600 Ibs., yet can produce some 4,000 Ibs. of thrust for 40 sec. to lift heavily laden planes off short runways...
Merchants he had neglected in town hurried to the chateau to display their choicest wares. The Count Foucou de Gines (rhymes roughly with jeans) picked over their offerings judiciously, settled on 20 jade statuettes, a few more paintings, some luxury editions of books. By the time he was through, the count had written checks for $71,000 worth of bric-a-brac. The count's secretary, taking advantage of an old French custom, scurried around to each merchant and demanded 10% commission on everything his master had bought. He collected, in cash, some 2,000,000 francs...
With that hunk of metal, on display at the International Foundry Fair in Dusseldorf this month, German steelmen aim to impress the world with the rise of their industry. Since 1950, German steel production has increased 76%. In 1954 it surpassed the previous 1938 peak. Last year Germany nosed out Great Britain, became the world's third largest steel producer (after the U.S. and Russia...