Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair exhibition of "American Art Today" (TIME, May 15), a belated opening ceremony took place last week. One thing none of the felicitous speakers remarked upon was the fact that, huge as it is, this exhibition does not live up to its title. To do so, it would have to represent not the artists of the U. S. alone but those of all the far-flung Americas...
Iceberg season on the North Atlantic is March 1 to July 1. The bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter...
Since 1929, whenever civic-proud residents of Minneapolis looked at their tallest building, they have read, in huge, indelible black letters encrusted on all four of its sides, the name of the utilities tycoon who built the building and later went to Leavenworth from which he was paroled two years ago. Last week the Minneapolis Journal gave them something to stare at besides that big FOSHAY. Using the invention of another local prodigy, Louis L. Rustad, the Journal strung a network of neon tubing around the top of the Foshay Tower, began displaying "sky flashes" of the latest news...
...mimic advertisement of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. showed its famed pyramidal tower in a trylon & perisphere arrangement partially obscured by a huge black 8-ball...
...contribution, Baldwin's order book would now be only about 40% of what it is. But if Baldwin stockholders can count on Midvale to keep their company from bogging down in depression, they cannot count on Midvale to do more than help Baldwin break even on its huge capacities (as it is barely doing now). Prosperity for Baldwin still depends on when U. S. railroad buying will come back...