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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Museum. Last week city officials were debating the conditions of the gift: 1) a $3,000.000 addition to the museum, in the form of an Oriental wing, designed to meet Brundage's specifications, and 2) a Brundage-approved curator and staff for the collection. If the price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty in China. Among the finest is the "Holy Man" or Lohan (opposite), whose peaceful humility especially delights the fighting autocrat who bought...
...Pacific Northwest lumber industry, in a price recession since July, noted a turn-around in buying for 1960 construction. Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week...
...much does the new convenience cost the U.S. housewife? Couples and small families agree that the price is right, but large families often find prepared food portions too small, priced too high to buy in quantity. Gourmet foods are almost uniformly expensive. Yet a U.S. Department of Agriculture study showed that if a typical consumer bought $100 worth of regular foods, they would cost him only 61? less than if he had bought the serviced equivalent. The food industry points out that the extra costs of "conveniencing" foods can be considered the expense of maid service. Says Charlie Mortimer...
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS that can produce electricity competitively priced with that produced by high-cost coal plants are "just about here," says Gwilym Price, board chairman of Westinghouse...
...Wall Street, where Curtiss-Wright stock has been hovering in the mid-30s for most of the year, the stock hopped 3¼ points to 35¼. Next morning C-W could not open for 35 minutes because of all the orders. When it finally got going, the price was 38 a share, up another 2¾ points, quickly soared to 40¾, a new high for the year...