Word: public
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DRAWINGS are to paintings what letters are to public declarations, or diaries to autobiographies, or songs to symphonies. Michelangelo called drawing the basis of almost all knowledge, believing that only the outline, on paper or in mind, can make meanings clear. Master drawings merge swift emotion with analysis. They are both personal and sharp...
...International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared a 60? extra dividend, the first since public sale of its stock...
...businessman's confidence in the future. The latest survey by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission, taken after the strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...
...through the railroad-busting Depression, earned money in 1958 from the coal regions of Virginia and West Virginia ($11.6 million for the Virginian; $43.5 million for the N. & W.), they duplicated one another to the point where the two lines were not, in ICC's words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from...
...make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...