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Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company has taken bet ter mountain-scenes than these. No miniature-sets and no doubles are used. You see the actors swinging over precipices thou sands of feet high, hooking spiked shoes into glassy walls. Best shot: Peter Voss getting...
Steel has lately been going at record pace. Best second quarter earnings since the war. . . . Unprecedented third quar ter generally predicted. . . . Industry operating at almost 95% of capacity. . . . Great Northern Railroad has bought 30,000 tons of steel rails. . . . Northern Pacific and Pennsylvania expected soon to place 15,000-ton orders each. . . . Rail roads will buy nearly twice as many freight cars in 1929 as they bought in 1928. . . . Two Chicago office buildings are using 14,-000 tons of structural steel. . . . General picking up in the building industry. . . . Automobiles expecting a 5,200,000 1929 production. . . . Production is expected...
...when newly-formed (TIME, March 18) Aviation Corp.. took over Colonial Airways, capitalized at $5,000,000. ¶ Pratt & Whitney (produced 960 engines in 1928; plan 2,000 in 1929) an nounced net profit first quarter of 1929, of $1,300,274 as against $337,012, first quar ter...
George Hughie, the leading philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...