Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a big retrospective show. The 241 pictures proved to the hilt that Homer's passion was for realizing life as he saw it. and as forthrightly as he possibly could. Said Museum Director John Walker: "One of our functions is to honor great American artists of the past, and we plan to keep on doing it with shows like this every two years; but Homer is really my hero...
Modern New Zealand geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...
...Help from Home. What makes the situation precarious is that in times past, Owner Hughes could be counted on to pick up the tab for losses. But Hughes is having troubles in other parts of his empire. Hughes Tool Co., which is financing T.W.A.'s new jets, is in no position to absorb more heavy losses. For years the company did a $120 million annual business in oilfield equipment-and turned a 50 profit before tax on every dollar. Now profits are down sharply. A decline in oil drilling, rising competition at home and imports of oil from abroad...
Last week another merger was well past the talk stage. The Norfolk & Western and the Virginian Railway, which share the profitable soft-coal Pocahontas region with the Chesapeake & Ohio, announced that they had started studies for a merger that would add "strength to strength." Both lines are efficient operators but could profit by merging. Their merger would create a new system having 2,695 miles of main track in the South and combined assets of more than $900 million...
...reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend...