Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month ago President Grover Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation found himself besieged by Manhattan artists. Their grievance: that the Fair had failed to allocate ground or building for an art exhibition (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week Mr. Whalen and his directors faced growing criticism from another quarter. On view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were two sets of pictures, contrasted with a minimum of 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...
...that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created by the downward steps. In general the McEachron crew confirmed Schonland's findings...
...city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Carter Coal at once sought an injunction against them on pea-sized coal prices, on the ground that the actions of the Commission were unconstitutional, and last week it got it from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. But Carter Coal's thunder was stolen on the same day when the mighty Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal...
...prices lower than those accorded to other purchasers-a practice which had enabled Sears to undersell its competitors. When the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act presently was passed, Goodyear abandoned the practice. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the F. T. C. order on the ground that the controversy no longer existed...
...gaudiest veneers for furniture are made result from a tree disease somewhat similar to boils. Nobody knows what causes burls, as nobody knows what causes cancer. They form most often underground where the roots join the tree. Burl diggers notice a slight swelling of the trunk at the ground level, dig down, chop off the roots and lift out the burl. The surgery required for burls above ground is more simple; they are just sawed...