Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program music, more on the level of a movie sound track than a concert piece. The first movement, "Palace Square," evoked an atmosphere of imminent tragedy, with its ominous drumbeat in the background. The second, "January 9th," is a musical treatment of the mob scene on "bloody Sunday." The third, "In Memoriam," is a funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow...
...marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy-and in most of Europe, where steel is scarce and expensive-concrete remains one of the cheapest and best available building materials. The Italian who, above all others, has mastered concrete and raised it to a level where it can compete with marble and granite is not an architect (though he holds honorary degrees as such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking airplane hangars, utilitarian salt depots and tobacco warehouses are hailed by many...
...competitors, make records in construction time. His stadium in Florence, seating 35,000, cost only $2.90 per seat to build; recently he put up a three-story factory in 100 days. Faced with commodity scarcities and cutthroat competition, he has still managed to raise pure structure to the level...
...example was the stock market, which started out strong, bouncing up 8.30 points to 441.04 on the Dow-Jones industrials average. But as the week progressed, a new report on railroad freight-car loadings showed a sharp drop to 703,688 cars for the week or 13.8% below 1956 levels; loadings of grain, ore and manufactured goods were all down. What worried Wall Streeters was the fact that freight-car loadings normally increase until the end of October, then fall off steadily until year's end. This year the decline started several weeks early, due largely, according...
...Those who looked beyond the car loadings could find considerable encouraging news. Retail trade is still at a higher level than in 1956, while personal income continues at a rate of $346.5 billion, $15.4 billion higher than last year. Detroit's automakers built 129,170 cars last week, the most since June and nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities...