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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
...authentic 1860 rolling stock for Union Pacific, he bought his equipment from Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway, which hauled $700,000,000 in gold and silver from Comstock Lode, got an ICC railroad operator's license to transport V&T's 37 vintage cars to location (at 15 m.p.h.). > He persuaded 700 reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary...
...Union Pacific off to a rolling start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday...
Came the War. First their business dwindled, then they got established. Today Portis Brothers makes about 1,000,000 hats a year, ranks about tenth in the industry. Last week at its 25th annual meeting Treasurer Henry Portis announced that its capital stood at $400,000, its surplus at $100,000, its 1938 net at $39,000. Its profits do not make Portis Brothers Hat Co. big business, but its management is unique...
...world's first semicontinuous strip mill for American Rolling Mill in 1926, claims to have produced more of this revolutionary steelmaking machinery than all its competitors combined. President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign markets. He consolidated seven U. S. plants into four, set up affiliates in Canada, England, France, sold complete mills to Russia, Japan, England...