Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany held third place in exports to Brazil, U. S. first, Great Britain second. That year Nazi barter economics started in earnest in Brazil. Germany bartered for Brazilian cotton, coffee, cocoa, gave in return machinery, iron and steel, manufactured products. In 1936 Germany rose quickly to first place as Brazilian exporter, held it through...
...evoke emotions by the exhibition of colored forms" which did not "look like" anything in particular. But Ozenfant showed (by photographs of cubistic and surrealistic-like scenes from modern life, by reproductions of Egyptian and prehistoric art) that the paintings of abstract artists were related to the contemporary steel-&-stone world, or to the art of earlier periods. Painting has a vocabulary, as does literature, but its vocabulary is color and form; and Ozenfant's advice to painters is to eschew what is fashionable, ephemeral, frivolous in their use of this vocabulary...
Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
...favorite thesis of Franklin Roosevelt (a thesis also of his severe critic General Hugh Johnson), is that steel prices have been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter...