Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstract teacher's general principles but feels, "Abstract art is too esoteric. The image gives one a wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...
...possible competitor of the railroads, three of them-the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate-allowed the pipeline to cross their right of ways in return for an option to buy 45% of the pipeline-operating company's stock. If the pipeline proves trouble-free when full-scale operation starts April 7, the industry expects it to be widely copied and the market for coal expanded...
...faster reactor progress, said Murray, is the fear of some private utilities that Government reactors (such as those proposed in the Gore-Holifield bill now pending before Congress) would lead to an "atomic TVA." As a way out, Murray suggested that Congress might direct AEC to build some full-scale reactors adjoining AEC plants, thus avoid competing with private power as they would if they were scattered throughout the U.S. At week's end it looked as though some such middle way might have to be found to get the reactor program in high gear-or Congress might pass...
...even allowed on these work buses. Originally azikwela was a simple protest against a one-penny rise in the bus fare. In the weeks since then, however, what began as a purely economic demonstration on the part of 15,000 Johannesburg bus riders has burgeoned into a full-scale political battle between South Africa's African National Congress and Premier Strydom's racist government...
Boston's fishing fleet has steadily resisted change. Fish are still scooped from the trawlers with pitchforks that damage much of the catch, trundled off in ancient, scale-covered wooden carts, dumped into insanitary oak barrels. The Fulhams plan to install modern handling equipment, are also constructing the pier's first rendering plant to convert trash fish into meal for animal food and fertilizer, thus give the fleet a profitable incentive to go after porgies and other cheap fish when good fish are scarce...