Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
Education by the fireside or over a glass of sherry always was the idea behind the House Plan. But that free and easy give and take between professor and student has, like all good ideas, often fallen into disuse. Like all good ideas, though, it has a way of persisting and coming to life every so often...
...went to lunch, but I couldn't eat anything. I drank a glass of milk. Then I went to bed and slept until 1:25. When I had climbed to the third floor of the Hygiene Building again, a nurse took my temperature. It was 101. Then I saw a doctor, and he said I should go to the infirmary. While I filled out some forms, the nurse called a taxi...
Business was booming at the Verrerie Marquot, a glass works at Fains-les-Sources, halfway between Paris and Strasbourg. The factory was turning out $50,000 worth of glassware a month. With his furnaces producing at full capacity, Gustave Marquot, the 29-year-old owner, last week was studying plans for expansion...
Plump, apple-cheeked Gustave Marquot, who lives with his family 100 yards from the plant, spends two hours of his nine-hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much...