Word: spiderwebs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothed, ill-fed French family which waits months for a CARE package. When it comes, it's all American magazines. And Wes Johnson's idea about a holdup at the Cambridge Trust curb teller makes a good cartoon. But what else? Robinson keeps drawing those goddam spiderweb cartoons utterly devoid of humor. And Edward's trifle about Kurds and gypsies succeeds only in being esoteric. That's it--except for the Boss's stuff...
...time a nervous feeling.") He is also fond of beach still lifes, in which he tries for harmonies of color, e.g., the whites of clamshells, the browns of crabs. Each is an experiment in style and technique. In a painting called Dew, he set pastel droplets on a gauzelike spiderweb; in another, he suspended a flowering atomic symbol over an enormous egg standing on an infinite plain. New England approves of Cox's experiments. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which buys little contemporary art, has a Cox "basic," and several pieces in his current exhibit have already...
...companies last week announced new strands for the spiderweb of pipelines pushing out at spectacular speed all over the U.S. Texas Gas Transmission Corp., whose pipeline runs from fields in East Texas and Louisiana to Middletown, Ohio, will add 580 miles of 26-in. feeder pipelines to bring another 200 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Midwest. Cost: $42.3 million. To increase the supply of fuel oil in the Midwest, Sinclair Pipe Line Co. plans to build a 700-mile, 22-in. pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to its refinery in East Chicago. Capacity: 145,000 barrels...
Threads in a Web. Last time, U.S. supply lines ran like threads in a spiderweb in every direction to every corner of the world; last week they were spread across waters unmolested by enemy submarines to lands which-except for most of Korea -were friendly and grateful. In 1941 and '42, the U.S. had to build the war plants. In 1950, the plants were still there-they needed only reviving or retooling. Last time, the U.S. had no stockpiles to speak of, few tried war weapons; this time, it had fairly sizable stockpiles of some strategic materials (lead, bauxite...
During the Russian blockade of Berlin, some Russians were themselves blockaded in the U.S. sector of the city. They worked in the massive grey Reichsbahn-Direktion, headquarters of the Soviet-controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...