Word: transformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know and bother with few transient U. S. tourists; instead they have good friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured, talented, rich Michel it is a love-match, but satisfactory to all; Mrs. Selby breathes a sigh of relief and goes on a bender with her husband...
...maneuvers on the Pacific Coast. The problem: expulsion of an enemy entirely by aircraft. For three weeks the first provisional wing of the Army Air Corps-the same squadrons and men that would be immediately concentrated in event of real war-would fight its invisible foe by day, would transform Mather Field into a gigantic metal rookery at sundown...
...live (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). She and her husband thereupon moved to London, climbed socially, spent fabulous sums in entertainment. During this time the steel firm was Corrigan-McKinney, a partnership in which McKinney exercised trusteeship over Founder Corrigan's estate. In 1925 he used this power to transform the partnership into a corporation, the McKinney Steel Co. Corrigan returned from London, bought control, gave the company its present title. When he died last year, his wife received his interest, but it was deposited with the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, as voting trustee. With power to sell...
When the Roman Emperor Augustus made up his mind to transform a city of brick into a city of marble, he employed Greek architects whose predecessors had designed the temples that still stood, like cool dreams in marble, on the hills of Attica and Sicily. When Francis I of France wanted palaces designed, he summoned Leonardo da Vinci. George Washington, after the fever of a war, set out to build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later...