Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatically artistic spell by taking clear, cold, head-on pictures of ordinary people and things. "After Stieglitz's real work was done," says Realist Evans, "he became a very arty old man and a Wagnerian man if there ever was one-a great old fiddler and lace-maker." Evans' realistic approach has inspired a generation of photographers, among them Margaret Bourke-White, who first made her mark photographing industry, and Dorothea Lange, who photographed California's migratory pea-pickers to show the effects of the Depression. Echoing the early Weegee, Evans says: "Photography is for the record...
...slacks belonged to little Eva Spiers, 14-year-old daughter of a Lancashire nail-maker. Five years ago, she had an attack of rheumatic fever. "Her little body was all twisted up," said her mother, Mrs. Ernest Spiers. "There were nights when I thought I would never get her straight...
...sale in New York last week went L & M Filters, the first entry of the Big Three into the filter-tip cigarette market. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), third largest U.S. cigarette maker,* priced its filters at about 9? more a pack than regular cigarettes...
...corporate structure. He bought a plate and pipe plant in the burgeoning Delaware Valley (TIME, June 8), a pig iron and iron ore company in Pennsylvania. Last year he bought Newark's 112-year-old John A. Roebling's Sons Co., primarily a maker of wire rope, and an engineering firm. These acquisitions not only gave C.F. & I. diversification, but also made it a well-integrated organization...
...most successful and most essential companies in the U.S. aircraft industry is California's Hughes Aircraft Co., owned by eccentric Millionaire Howard Hughes. Concentrating almost entirely on electronics, it is the sole maker of radar for Air Force interceptor planes, the sole builder of fire-control devices for Navy Banshee fighters. It also developed controls for an air-to-air guided missile so accurate that tests of it were stopped because it was destroying too many drone planes...