Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother-in-law's house represents the ultimate in uncomfortable functionalism, with a push-button kitchen, chairs that Hulot can't sit in, and a garden featuring a metallic fish which spouts water (used for company only). Director Tati and his man Hulot take this cheery homestead and turn it into a mechanized madhouse. Hulot, after discovering a rubber-based pitcher that bounces, tried to bounce a glass, only to find that brother-in-law's technicians haven't modernized that item yet. When a modern sofa proves impossible for Hulot to sleep in, he discovers that turned...
After several brief, effective expository scenes, Gibson's play traces Annie's struggles with her pupil up to the crucial point where young Helen, standing at a pump outside the Kellers' Alabama homestead, realizes that the W-A-T-E-R which Annie is spelling out in her hand means something and that that something is the water flowing over her arms. With this discovery of language, Annie's job has both ended and just begun; from this first world "water" Miss Keller built and understood a world...
...many companies had to start allocating steel and reopen marginal facilities. U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough reported that orders were being received at a faster rate than at any time in 1958, as Big Steel fired up seven of 14 open-hearth furnaces idled at its Pennsylvania Homestead Works last March. Equally cheering, Blough told stockholders that the company earned $90,728,989 or $1.57 a share in the fourth quarter, topping the $90,096,731 or $1.56 a share it netted a year earlier. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. relit a Chicago blast furnace and two East...
Sharing the lot of her snow-plagued subjects. Queen Elizabeth II plowed her station wagon into a drift near the royal homestead at Sandringham. had to mush 200 yds. down the road with Prince Charles to find a phone, call for help...
...place Cleveland Indians and the last-place Washington Senators-seem eager to travel. With a knowing wink eastward, the Minneapolis city council one day last week voted a $9,000,000 bond issue to enlarge Metropolitan Stadium from 21,000 to 41,000 if a big-league team should homestead there. Barely an hour later, the St. Paul city council voted a bond issue to enlarge Municipal Stadium from 10,250 to 42.000 for any team that dropped...