Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibited at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum displayed modern furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
Behind patrols of tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
Information stacked in numerous files, makes it possible to obtain any data about an alumnus immediately. What is more, two separate metal plate files enable the office to make out lists of graduates by class or by geographical location with only an hours notice. This information can either be obtained on galley sheets or envelopes within that time...
...largest problems of the Office is making sure that all the information on alumni is up-to-date, and every time that a correction comes in for a graduate's address or occupation, all the file cards that contain his name have to be changed, while new metal plates have to be made for the mechanical files...
...hanging is no longer the fashionable thing it was once; a few U. S. States- Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming, North Carolina and California- even kill their murderers with gas instead of electricity. Five of the country's lethal chambers have been made by the Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, which has a ghastly set of patents. Last week the fifth was sent off to San Quentin prison in California...