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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comment: 1) sketches for houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World's Fair; 2) photographs of a community of handsome houses built in a modern style outside Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 by European Architects van der Rohe, Gropius, Corbusier, Oud. "Tomorrow Looking Toward Yesterday?" queried the Museum's neat display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fairs & Furbelows | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...last quarter of 1937 when business in the United States experienced a recession, business conditions in European nations (1 experienced an even greater depression than American business, 2 revealed a new low of the depression since 1929, 3 abated to about the same extent as in the U. S., 4 revealed no sign of abatement or check of activity, 5 became worse in Great Britain but remained about the same as during the early part of the year in other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Sigfried Giedion, Swiss historian of art and one of the leading European figures in the promotion of modern architecture and art, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the current academic year, it was announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGFRIED GIEDION TO HOLD POST AS NORTON PROFESSOR OF POETRY | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...upon the British iron and steel industry. Fourteen years ago the Earl of Dudley arrived in the U. S. as equerry to the Prince of Wales. Two years ago the Earl visited the U. S. in a futile attempt to get the U. S. steel industry to join the European Steel Cartel. Last week the Earl of Dudley once more sailed into New York Harbor on the same errand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gentlemen's Agreement | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...cartel is "an agreement, usually in writing, among manufacturers, which regulates production and prices." Before the World War it has been estimated that there were some 114 international cartels. One of the first and most successful was the International Rail Makers' Association which appeared in 1884. The European Steel Cartel has been turbulent but relatively successful. It was formed in 1926 by Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Saar to overcome through production quotas the disastrous effects of post-War overproduction. In the past dozen years it has been abandoned and revived, depending on the world demand for steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gentlemen's Agreement | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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