Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts were no kinder. One critic suggested that Thorak's jumbo-sized statues would have been more appropriate as small porcelain figurines to "decorate a small table." Said another: "It shows how low our taste has become, that this 'art' of the dictatorship still finds acknowledgment today...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art toward contemporary artists." This back pat, sent to Manhattan newspapers his week, was an answer to a blast at the Met signed by 28 advanced abstractionists a fortnight ago (TIME, June 5). The protesting avant-garde artists had felt sure hat the Met's jumbo, jury-selected show contemporary U.S. art scheduled for December would exclude most abstract tainting of the sort they favored. If Artists Equity agreed with that supposition, t didn't seem to care. The organization numbers 1,600 members-mostly middle-if-the-road painters. No less than...
James has been backing up this philosophy for 50 years with such Hankins specialties as " Southern fried chicken, corn muffins, peanut-butter ice cream, and jumbo apple pies...
...biggest-and among the oldest-of the noncontributory plans are those of the Bell system-A.T. & T. and its subsidiaries-which roll sickness, accident, disability, death and pension benefits all into one jumbo package. Bell started the plans in 1913 on a pay-as-you-go basis, but in 1927 started setting up a reserve fund for pensions ("funding") because it thought the method sounder. (A.T. & T. now has more than $1 billion in its pension funds.) In computing Bell pensions, an employee's length of service is taken as a percentage (e.g., 20 years = 20%) and multiplied...
...black financial magic by which governments raise or lower the value of their currencies amid incantations of economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...