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...Museum's selection, called "New Horizons in American Art," elevated many a New Yorker's indifferent eyebrows (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936). In other cities, galleries have prudently gone slow on WPA exhibitions, waiting for quality to accumulate. Last week Chicago's great Art Institute, able to skim the cream from more than three years' work by local artists, opened the biggest, handsomest WPA show yet held...
...each family of four consisted of: 2 lb. of dried beans, 4 Ib. of butter, 4 Ib. of prunes, 20 Ib. of cabbage, 8 stalks of celery, 15 Ib. of oranges, 2 Ib. of rice, 2 Ib. of potato flour, 24½ Ib. of wheat flour, 8 lb. of skim milk...
...Indicated that it would buy, through Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 8,000,000 pounds of skim milk powder, equivalent to 88,000,000 pounds of fluid skim milk. FSCC has spent $26,000,000 since January buying up surplus commodities to distribute through relief agencies. Milk production is 8% above last year; prices are lower. Fierce milk wars have been going on in New York, Buffalo, Detroit...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...
...viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat...