Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME hits a new low [April 4] with so much space devoted to Diego Rivera. Even his leering likeness on your cover is more nauseous to my stomach (uncultured though it may be) than any amount of overripe duck...
...come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson's quarrel was not with Mahon but with President Truman and the Budget Bureau...
...Cannon blast apparently had no influence on the House, one way or the other; it was just a low-order expression in an isolationist side street. When the vote came, the House refused to boost the Navy's air appropriations and rolled through the full $15.9 billion appropriation unchanged...
Gumdrop Remembrance. Actually, frightful was the word for most of it, and the worst pieces were generally the ones that relied on ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples...
Twice last week, wind & weather pushed the smog down so low that it cut visibility at street level. Moviemakers gave up plans for outdoor shooting and concentrated instead on interior scenes. Hundreds of citizens' eyes began to smart and water. Scientists could offer them no relief. There were scores of substances in smog: which of them caused eye irritation was still a mystery...