Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arnold Bernstein's big contribution to the shipping business was installation of modern elevators in his freight ships so that automobiles could be driven on and off. He pared the cost until the Bernstein Line did 65 % of U. S.-Europe automobile transport. When he was jailed, Studebaker and Ford companies cabled Germany urging his release to provide continuance of vigorous trade for the Reich...
...apple falling from a tree may have started Isaac Newton on the way to the Law of Gravitation, but such falls are disastrous to modern orchardists. They want to pick their fruit from the trees, not gather it off the ground. Grounded apples are spoiled by bruises and rotting. Science cannot suspend the Law of Gravitation for beleaguered orchardists, but last week it offered them a substitute in the form of a chemical apple-stem toughener...
Many a scientist, contemplating with heavy heart last week the outbreak of war in Europe, recalled with bitterness the layman's charge that "Science has made war horrible." Scientists do not feel that science is responsible for the frightfulness of modern war. They have pursued the conquest of nature in their laboratories and it is not their guilt if men of bad will have snatched up their discoveries and misapplied them to the conquest and murder of man. The first man who discovered that fire could be made by twirling sticks or striking flints was, in a sense...
...Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...
Southern California, scene of the mighty creative labors of Screenland, is not notable for cultivation of the more modest arts and crafts. Walter Conrad Arensberg, one of the quietest and most discriminating U. S. collectors of modern art, has said that in Hollywood he enjoys the most perfect vacuum America can produce. A symbol of this condition has long been the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Supported by the County of Los Angeles, it has boasted a beautiful lawn, a superb collection of fossils, and, since the last one was fired early in Depression, no art curator...