Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sides. Last year, 35 years after he proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored to its supporting columns as lightly as a dirigible, Kiesler's "Endless House" looks more like a cloud than a building...
...ddeutsche Zeitung: "After all, in the circus we have learned to discern fine artistry and great human values beneath a clown." Said irreverent Painter Pinot Gallizio, a former professor of chemistry and amateur archaeologist who turned painter only seven years ago: "Painting as such has reached the end of its road. From now on, the human eye will be perfectly satisfied by seeing any color or shape, provided the color is brilliant and the shape imaginative. You won't get modern art any cheaper and certainly not any better...
...margin accounts by the Federal Reserve (see below), the U.S. investor drove the market to still another historic high. Led by some of the nation's biggest corporations, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average rose to 637.04 at midweek. By the final gong at week's end, profit taking had clipped only 2.51 points from the mark to put the weekly gain at 13.17 points...
...dispel any doubts about overcapacity, Republic's Chairman Charles M. White told stockholders that he foresees the possibility of total steel industry output in 1960 exceeding 1955's record of 117,036,085 tons. Republic, which has boosted its own steelmaking capacity nearly 50% since the end of World War II, may, said White, well add another...
Heavy electrical equipment makers also reported healthy improvement in new orders. General Electric's large steam-turbine-generator department said that orders thus far this year are almost equal those for all of 1958, while Allis-Chalmers' backlog of unfilled orders has risen 72% since the end of last year, now stands at $225 million, a record peacetime total. Other sectors of the capital-goods complex, such as generator makers, locomotive builders, and construction equipment manufacturers, reported rising new business. Summed up McClure Kelley, president of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (machine tools, road-building equipment): "The improvement comes from...