Word: sloan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EUGENE W. SLOAN Chief Division of Savings Bonds Treasury Department Washington...
...Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery of Sloan, Luks, Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast and William Glackens first linked these artists as "The Eight" U. S. individualists. None of them changed so much in the next ten years as Glackens. With much observation his versatile eye became intensely selective. As late as 1912 he painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence...
Fortnight ago Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp. told a Senate committee that "America's production plant is obsolete," that industry should be stimulated to substitute new machines for old, thus increase production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground...
...fact today that America's production plant is obsolete, as measured by today's technology. The true way to enlarge present pay envelopes and provide more pay envelopes for more workers is to do those things that mean lower prices." Such price reduction, said Mr. Sloan, "can only be accomplished by increased productivity"-i.e., modernizing U. S. production...