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...Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home (see cut, p. 41), and John Atherton's Chirico-like Americana, in which pale patriotic statuary is poised against bleak winter scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Shows | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...field equipment ($25,000 to $40,000 per field); the Bureau of Air Commerce is authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 to spend Government money for beacons and beams between airports but not at airports. If Congress makes a happy landing with some such legislation as the Hildebrandt Bill, now languishing in a House committee, the U. S. will pay for landing units at all important fields, and airlines will need to install only about $1,000-worth of receiving instruments in each plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Beams Wanted | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Berry who is an ex-cowboy, wears a white sombrero, and once astounded a Washington redcap by stepping off a train and shouting "Hell, boy, where's the water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close Senate race in 1936, campaigning over a radio station which he operates himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: First Round | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Wood touched to white-hot, molten steel, bursts into flame. Last week in Cleveland the molten metal poured on shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sawdust Lumber | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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