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Wyatt then added 50 more items to the 30-odd already on the housing priorities list. Sample additions: stoves, refrigerators, linoleum, sheet steel, putty. He persuaded the Department of Commerce to extend its control over exports of building materials. He let it be known that new limitations might be placed on nonresidential construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Jerry-Built | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Pottery, china clay, hosiery, furniture, boots & shoes, carpets, domestic glassware, jute, linoleum, wool, jewelry & silverware, cutlery, heavy clothing, lace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pattern in Cotton | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Furthest south TIME News Bureau is in Buenos Aires, where Bill Mooney works in 46.9 square meters of linoleum-covered space in Edificio Boston on Avenida Presidente Roque Saenz Pena, a bronze, marble-and-mahogany building so fancy even for Latin America that one dazzled United Stateser exclaimed, "Where's the organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...paths. He finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced that the right angle was the purest "expression of the two opposing forces [which] constitute life." To the uninitiated, the result might look something like a linoleum pattern, but Mondrian spent days shifting colored Scotch tape around a canvas, hoping to achieve a perfect harmony of balanced rectangles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Driven to Abstraction | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...office is small, with brown linoleum on the floor. Small as the office is, President Grumman shares it with a balding onetime professional basketball player named Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, 45, Grumman's executive vice president and production boss. Like Grumman, Jake Swirbul grew up in a small town (Sag Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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