Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Site of the hot-dog luncheon was a lately acquired hilltop on Franklin Roosevelt's own land, adjacent to his mother's. Here, he revealed, he is going to have something he has long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the woods with stakes and string. Contracts were let last week to Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms...
...less anxious for the treaty to come into force is Dictator Mussolini. With a considerably curtailed wheat crop, with Fascist finances in none-too-good shape, Italy is impatient for the day when she can receive a British loan. So in Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided...
...touch sensations of different objects. Cutting new forms from paper sounded easy until students tried it, found themselves sitting idle for hours before hacking away at practice sheets. When designs came easily in paper, they began working in wood and stone, did creditable sculpture, designed "machines" of fantastic shape but of no practical use, studied patterns of light and motion in classes in photography. Creating new forms was easiest for young high-school graduates, hardest for students with art school training. With no grades given at the New Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy last week expressed himself as highly satisfied, dropped only...
...Chicago were 8.79? a lb., in New York 8.58?. These prices are only about half what hides were bringing last year, for consumption of tanned leather was off 25% in the first four months this year. Despite this obvious result of Depression II, the industry is in pretty fair shape statistically. With production cut 30% in the first four months of 1938, inventories of tanned hides are 5.6%, of raw hides a full 22% under a year...
...their home offices were not quite so bad as most had anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...