Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growth of WPA projects gave Sculptor Bufano another chance. Abandoning stone, he thought of a figure of glittering stainless steel, arms upraised in benediction. He made a model of redwood and copper, shrewdly choosing Regional Director Joseph Danysh of the Federal Art Project for his model. Then the arguments were on. Even the Catholic Church was divided, Father George of the Franciscans, representing the Father Provincial of the Western United States, violently objecting that the statue was an insult to his Order, Archbishop Mitty approving...
...Saying farewell to Walter Runciman, hard-headed president of the British Board of Trade who had come to discuss a Reciprocal Trade Agreement (TIME, Feb. i). Franklin Roosevelt presented that longtime shipping man with one of his treasures, a three-foot model of the four-masted schooner Shenandoah...
Forester Everts successfully tested an experimental model, returned it to the shop to iron out minor kinks. Before next summer he expects to have several full-size units on duty in the woods. Dry ice costs only 4? per Ib. and one filling provides enough power to empty the water tank ten times...
Crux of the story is the picture of the nude girl in mask and muff. But cinemaudiences never see the model or the drawing. They see only clothes on the floor and people laughing the next day. For spectators with no imagination, the producers carefully took a "still" of Model Hilde von Stolz, distributed it for insertion in cinemansion advertising and programs...
From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...