Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sold. This left the giant of the industry $8 a ton above its lowest competitor, but it asserted its intention of meeting each cut till its small bedevilers reformed or bled to death. Price cuts that bring increased orders are good business according to the philosophy which Henry Ford made famous and Edsel Ford now practices. But in spite of last week's cuts, steel production fell this week to 45.4% (last week 47%, fortnight ago 49%). Unless more business follows soon, steel's price cuts will raise questions: How far can steel prices tumble without steel managements...
...happened that the cotton mills had an excellent excuse for slackening their pace-a shortage of cotton. It was a purely man-made shortage, for the U. S. Government holds under loan 11,400,000 bales, enough to keep the U. S. in shirts and skirts, sheets and towels, for nearly two years...
...person who was not only a founder but a moving spirit of the Museum: Nelson's publicity-hating mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. That the presidency of the Museum is no longer-if it ever was-merely a family, clique, or society function, the principal speakers of the evening made abundantly clear. Sample (Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking by radio from the White House...
Attempts to treat the diversity of contemporary arts had been made before at the Bauhaus in Germany, but they were fancy business in America in 1929. No zealot, Director Barr concentrated on paintings, the main interest of such trustees as Samuel A. Lewisohn and Stephen C. Clark, and bided his time. He got a secretary and five small exhibition rooms in a Fifth Avenue office building. The trustees met for the first time in October, armed with pledges for $200,000. In November the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors with an exhibition of Lillie Bliss's fine...
Pictures have a longer tradition as Art than machine-tooling or the cinema. The 186,000 visitors to the Museum during its first year came to see pictures, and pictures for a long time made up the Museum's most elaborate and popular exhibitions. Among them...