Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Morgan treasures, energetic Librarian Bell da Costa Greene put on show eye-catching examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
Last fortnight the pagoda got to Mrs. Roosevelt safe & sound, but the Dragon Throne failed to show up. She pottered around a customs warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last...
...Milan, Italy last fortnight opened a prodigious show. Its subject: one of the most prodigious men who ever lived-Leonardo da Vinci. His paintings and drawings were not the half of what filled 25 rooms in Milan's Palace of Art. To Italians the show was meant to proclaim "the bond that exists between this great creator and the realizations of Mussolinian and Imperial Italy." Accordingly, 22 commissions of Italian experts had scrabbled for a year among the notebooks and sketches in which Leonardo recorded his observations and speculations in the fields of engineering, mathematics, physics, anatomy, architecture, astronomy...
...integrated companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corporation, Gulf Oil), this is not vital. If their refining operations show a loss, it is merely a bookkeeping matter provided that their crude oil production is efficient, shows a greater profit, for they still have net earnings. To Consolidated Oil which has to buy approximately half the crude oil it refines-and to other refiners without their own crude oil supply-the difference between the prices of crude and of gasoline is serious...
When Martin goes to Manhattan with his mother, he stays over to see a show or two, any kind just so he's sure it's likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...