Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main air base of central France, near Lyon, plans for sky mobilization in case of war are kept in the colonel's safe. Last week Sergeant Keiffer of the night patrol drove off four strangers with gun fire, rushed into the colonel's office, found the safe drilled almost open and on the floor a kit of brand-new burglar tools...
...sarcastic canvas that had been awarded her $500 prize (TIME, Nov. 18). Artist Waugh, spry at 74, produces about 75 canvases a year. The Grand Central Art Galleries, his Manhattan agents, never keep a Waugh canvas long in stock, wish they had more painters like him. Surf, sky and rocks are his only subjects. These he knows so well that he no longer bothers to leave his Provincetown, Mass, studio to look at them. However, all Waugh seascapes are not alike. Ante Meridian shows a wave breaking against a cliff in the right foreground. Post Meridian had waves breaking...
...commodity roads are supposed to be especially vulnerable, but in the last five years the Southern bituminous carriers have been the brightest stars in the dark railroad sky. Norfolk & Western is the highest-priced active rail on the New York stock exchange, pays $8 in dividends exclusive of extras, sells at $215 per share. Chesapeake & Ohio not only maintained its boomtime rate throughout Depression, but boosted it. Virginian skipped common payment for a while (though it is now on a $4 basis), quickly made up its one lapse on the preferred. And it never failed to cover interest charges...
...Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque show to a defiance of Washington. "City...
Great spotlights tickled the sky over Hollywood one night last week. Raspberry floodlights bathed the south side, chartreuse beams the façade, of a building near Hollywood Boulevard whose fluted white front bore the architectural devices of Greece, the French Empire, the U. S. Cinema. Under a marquee passed film folk and thousands of others who had been summoned with great powder-blue and orange cellophane invitations to attend the opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since...