Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paintings by Hopper are matchless in their clean and spacious solidity. "Storage Plant" embodies precision without loss of emotional content. The use of clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's paintings. His clear, cloudless skies, fresh grass, and firm buildings, make a person momentarily forget that he is inside a museum...
Paramount will build a new $12,000,000 plant in West Los Angeles, make 60 pictures, including two starring Charles Laughton; Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and London After Dark with Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh...
Witness Hansen. Harvard Professor Alvin H. Hansen, fully equipped with charts, tables, a schoolroom pointer and a green eyeshade, delivered the first lecture: From 1923 to 1929, the average yearly national income was $77 billions, was maintained by the average annual investment of $18.3 billions in new plant and equipment. In 1930-36 annual income averaged only $53 billions (it is now around $65 billions) and only $8.6 billions were invested in new capital goods. Professor Hansen wasted no time over economists' chicken & egg dilemma whether a big national income begets big investments in new capital or vice versa...
...fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that he did not get the big order was not even a serious setback to Glenn Martin today. His $10,000.000 plant outside Baltimore had just delivered 117 B10 bombers to The Netherlands, was working on a ten-million dollar order for new gull-winged flying boats for the Navy, 215 of the 167 bombers for France. Altogether his backlog of orders came to $39,500,000 worth of planes. With...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. was in Cleveland and its president had virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...