Word: makers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scholar, Tolkien is well aware of the successes and failures which have marked the progression of both the epic and the language. He has faced the obstacles of any modern epic-maker: comprehending and making meaningful an ever-more-complex pattern of human existence and understanding, and evoking both awareness and awe with an increasingly vulgarized language. In these terms, he has succeeded...
Fritz Winter left his job as a miner in a Westphalian coal shaft when he won a scholarship at the Bauhaus. When the Nazis clamped down, Winter scraped together enough money to buy a hillside farmhouse in Bavaria. As a front, he set up shop as a maker of wooden knickknacks. His real work he did at night, painting abstractions that reflected the grimness of the times. Says Winter of one typical painting, which shows four heavy, black hammer forms relentlessly assaulting a doomed crystalline structure: "I was a seismograph; I was under a heavy weight in those years...
From every corner of U.S. industry last week came a cresting flood of 1955 earnings reports. As nothing else, they pinpointed the economy's continuing good health and expanding markets. One prime example was cosmetics-maker Revlon, Inc., which won the annual TV sweepstakes by latching onto the $64,000 Question. President Charles Revson reported that Revlon had a 54% sales increase to $51.6 million for the year, counted record profits of $3,500,000 v. $1,200,000 in 1954. And sales are still climbing...
...markets in petrochemicals, natural gas and increasing auto travel boosted Phillips Petroleum's 1955 profit to a record $95 million, 25% more than 1954; the company will spend $200 million on expansion in 1956 and confidently predicts still higher earnings. The boom in business flying brought light-plane-maker Cessna Aircraft sales of $16 million for fiscal 1956's first-quarter, 30% more than a year ago. In housing, the demand for home and factory insulation materials pushed Johns-Manville Corp.'s 1955 sales to $285 million, its second-best year in history. Increasing farm mechanization...
Died. Charles J. Hardy, 89, president (1933-44) and board chairman (1944-51) of American Car & Foundry Co. (now ACF Industries. Inc., with 16,500 employees in 20 plants), the second largest U.S. railroad-car maker; in Manhattan...