Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid off $340 million of Big Steel's bonded debt just before the 1929 crash, thus enabling it to live through the depression, when-for the first time-it lost money. Taylor modernized equipment and, more importantly, changed Big Steel's labor relations...
...visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich. This year, Manhattan's Walter Florell ("the mood at the moment is to look bold") is trimming hats with Lillian Russell-sized plumes (see cut). But he has tuned them to the 20th Century by coating them with copper, rust and gold lacquers. Other Florell eye openers: one-foot-square feather muffs; a single feather-covered glove, worn shoulder length. That was enough to get Manhattan's Murray Sears, big U.S. feather merchant, to book passage to South Africa last week to buy up all the fine feathers...
...characterize each one sharply within that arbitrary formula. For traditional draftsmanship he substituted clear, smoothly looping lines that divide the canvas into locked swirls of space. Instead of a full palette he used a few colors ranging from the darkness of thick smoke to the brightness of red rust...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...
...fight rust is to eradicate barberry bushes in the wheat belt. Another is to hope that the weather will not be favorable for the fungus wintering in Texas. The Department of Agriculture, after taking a horrified look at the Race 156 situation, trusts neither of these methods. It is trying to breed wheat that can resist. By growing its new varieties in winter in the Imperial Valley, it gets two generations a year, speeds up the development process...