Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American art. Not normally known as well-established in art of the New World, the Met has just a few things begging to find wall space there. Among its U.S. painting treasures, rarely seen together for lack of gallery space, are 37 Sargents, 22 Gilbert Stuarts, 15 Homers, eleven Copleys, eight Cassatts, seven paintings each by Eakins, Childe Hassam, Ryder, Benjamin West and Whistler, six each by Thomas Cole, Arthur Dove and the Peale brothers, five each by George Bellows, Albert Bierstadt and John Sloan...
...averages but at the last moment shied away like a nervous horse. Twice during the week, while Wall Street watched with fascinated suspense, the market edged above 900 for brief periods during the day. Each time, however, scared that it had gone too high too fast, it retreated. After eleven straight days of advance, it closed on the day before President Johnson's oath-taking at 896.27, a new record, then eased off to end the week below...
Education is a wonderful thing, but a $750 million education is expensive by any standards. That is the estimated cost to the U.S. economy of the longshoremen's eleven-day walkout, which broke last week when New York longshoremen voted 2 to 1 to accept a new contract amounting to an 80?-an-hour package over four years. Education was at the heart of the matter, since the longshoremen had first turned down the new contract without really knowing what it was all about, gone on strike, and decided to approve the contract in a new vote only after...
...three new mills have opened in Texas and Arkansas to make plywood from the faster-growing Southern pine. Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's biggest producer of timber products, is building a plant at Plymouth, N.C. Vancouver Plywood is at work on two plants in Louisiana, and at least eleven other firms are planning or building Southern plants and scrambling to tie up timber stands. Their total investment will come close to $100 million. Says U.S. Plywood President Gene C. Brewer: "I can see the day coming when the South might produce 25% of the nation's plywood...
...still well below General Motors Chairman. Frederic Donner, who made $800,000 in 1964.) Starting soon, the huge M.I.T. check will be made out in the name of a new man. Last week the fund announced that Kenneth L. Isaacs, 60, M.I.T.'s vice chairman for the past eleven years, will succeed Dwight P. Robinson Jr., 65, as board chairman...