Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain (see cut) was painted at Manhattan...
Cortisone is made, in 37 chemical steps over a six-month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...
...more stoutly built (of 1¾ in. steel) for the tremendous pressures at lower depths-2,000 pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
...Permit investors to take a capital gain on stock profits after holding the stock for three months instead of six...
...special emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers, the press, radio and TV and film exhibitors...