Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades the men of modern ' architecture and design have been perpetuating a plain world made of the cube, the cage and flat glass. Now they have begun to find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
...strode into the united labor movement's sleek, modern headquarters in Washington last week, burly A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany blushed for all to see. Plodding back and forth on the sidewalk was a pudgy picket carrying a sandwich board that proclaimed: 21 YEARS AN A.F.L.-C.I.O. ORGANIZER THEN FIRED BY A 3^ STAMP. Admitted an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official: "It's damned embarrassing...
Odhams' top competitor, George Newnes Ltd. (Woman's Own. Modern Woman), was shrilly trumpeting Woman's Day, due out this month, as its own new entry in the man-catcher sweepstakes. Both will compete directly with their own stablemates. But by offering lower ad rates ($2,800 a color page), based on a guaranteed circulation of 1,000,000 each, the two new magazines expect to attract a flock of would-be advertisers who are being priced out of the women's market...
...Liggett & Myers' L & M brand had only 1.5 milligrams of nicotine, 11 milligrams of tar in 1955; two years later, L & M showed almost a 70% increase in nicotine, more than a 33% increase in tar. "Amazingly," noted the committee, "it then announced 'the miracle of the modern miracle...
Twelve months ago, a modern, 10,000-ton collier bound for Europe could be counted on to earn $3,570 profit each day at sea. Last week the same coal-laden vessel on the same run was losing up to $280 a day. After steaming along the crest of postwar prosperity, shipping is down in the trough of a deepening recession...