Word: erastus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heads and the flaring banners on the wall. Unlike Trumbull's sparing canvas, the fantastic Historical Monument to the American Republic stretches out to an immense 9 by 13 feet. It was painted 100 years after the birth of the nation by a Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue...
...Chicago, Chairman Robert Erastus Wilson of Standard Oil of Indiana expressed his own optimism in the future as his company reached the $2 billion mark in assets. Said Wilson: "It took us 57 years to reach $1 billion in assets, and just seven more years to reach $2 billion." Wilson, already after the third billion, announced that in the next two years Indiana Standard will spend $500 million on expansion and modernization. The oil industry as a whole, he thought, can look forward to an increase in demand this year "almost as large as that...
Lawmakers at Work. These preparations were not begun without stirring up piercing yells of alarm. Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning was in a terrible swivet -he accused New York City of aiming to turn upstate New York into a desert by drying up the clouds before they got there. Some residents of the city's watershed area seemed to think that they faced only two alternatives: build arks or drown in a Howell-made deluge...