Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actively opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland locks in easy stages, the jam-up at Alton lock was well on its way to being eased...
...young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn...
...INLAND WATERWAYS in U.S. are carrying 20% more traffic this year than 1955's record 867 million tons. Business is up 20% on Tennessee River, 15% on lower Mississippi and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (TIME COLOR PAGES, Oct. 1). Total U.S. waterborne traffic-including imports and exports, coastal, lake, inland waterways-topped 1 billion tons last year for first time in history...
...former Chairman of the Board of Inland Steel Co. stressed the need for a "broad cultivation of the mind" of the potential executive. "Industry does not employ a young man for what he knows, but rather for his proven capacity to learn," he said. This capacity, he added, would be developed regardless of the specific nature of the student's studies...
Randall, former chairman of the board of Inland Steel Corporation, said that his own experience had proved that "a general education is sound preparation for a career in business." While scientists are trained to "break the subject down into smaller areas for study," only the liberally educated man can correlate the efforts of many "into a unified and effective whole...