Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artistic preferences upheld when the United States Information Agency, stung by the boss's mild criticism of the modern art in the big U.S. fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
...students and leaving Harvard far behind. Good Harvardmen quickly raised an $11,350 fund of their own; soon it was known as the Lowell Trust, after the Lowell family treasurers, who began running it in their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent $1,435,969 to 10,500 Harvard students, including eight who became college presidents,* two Massachusetts...
...Krupp and August Thyssen-Hutte, the German industry is flexing its muscles, reconcentrating once more to make itself more efficient, aggressively seeking out new markets from India to South America. In Great Britain, heavily bombed in the war, the steel industry is now among the world's most modern. Britain's biggest steel company is United Steel Companies Ltd., whose chairman, Sir Walter Benton Jones, 78, is the elder statesman of British steel. Says Sir Walter: "I think of nothing during the week but United Steel, and on weekends I think of my garden and my home...
France has one of the best and most buoyant steel positions in its history, raised production to a record 16.2 million tons last year. The industry is modern, research conscious and anxious to win new markets. Though Japan is still considered a high-cost producer of iron and steel-mainly because it has to import raw materials-it also manages to compete actively abroad, is moving into South America at the expense of the U.S. industry. Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry...
...successful as most of the program was, it could only serve as a bare introduction to two important modern poets. But hopefully, it might have sent at least a few to Lamont for a further look at what they have to offer...