Word: high
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From a personality test) Q.: "Do you think that this school is run as if it were a prison?" Reviewer's comment: "It is questionable whether high-school students would have the courage and the desire to answer such questions honestly...
...quality made the Sullivan sale significant. As the first major auction of modern French painting since dealers' prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most of the high bids, dealers were vindicated. Chunky, art-loving Walter P. Chrysler Jr. set a new U. S. auction record for Cézanne by bidding $27,500 for a sombre portrait of Mme Cézanne. An anonymous collector paid $19,000 for van Gogh's high-keyed portrait...
...Aircraft Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, could have been expected to pinch himself as he looked over the production report of his engine division. Sawing away at a backlog of something like $100,000,000 (United's total backlog: above $115,000,000), Pratt & Whitney has hit the high point of its production history, above 350* engines a month, more than double its average for 1938. This production will be doubled when the new plant reaches its capacity next spring...
Before the snow is off the ground, Pratt & Whitney expects to have its factory-on-a-silver-platter turning out as many high-powered motors as are now being crated in the loading room of its old plant, sees no trouble ahead in filling the requirements of the U. S. Army and Navy, plus still other orders from overseas...
...under the watering of another French grant. Wright's expansion is financed by a French order said to be $30,000,000, will nearly double its capacity of about 400* Cyclones a month. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, General Motors' new Allison plant is getting into production on its high-powered, liquid-cooled engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well hit a total of close to 2,000 a month, end fears which Army and Navy men entertained that engine production might...