Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason was Siqueiros' bold use of bold materials. Industrial enamels like Peroxylin and Vinylite he applied, sometimes with a spray gun, to Masonite and Bakelite. They made his paintings loom bright and powerful as new trucks. But there was a deeper reason: Siqueiros had at last taken Eisenstein's advice and ditched the propaganda art of his own manifesto. Illustrative documentary painting of social injustice might be fine for educating the masses, but by now it bored Siqueiros...
...eight years as a Latin teacher before becoming an economics professor, recalled the unexpected meetings with former students ("Do you remember me," they always seemed to say, "You licked me at Upper Canada College"). More exasperating were pupils whose parents did their lessons for them: "I used to say to them: 'Paul, tell your father that he must use the ablative after pro.' " But there was always a bright spot, wrote Leacock. "It is the last day of school. . . . If every day in the life of a school could be the last, there would be little fault...
Westinghouse Engineer Clinton R. Hanna got the idea from the famed tank-gun stabilizer that he developed during the war. The stabilizer made it possible to fire a gun accurately from a speeding tank. Looking around for a peacetime use for his device, Hanna finally tinkered together a contraption with an extraordinary capacity for detecting the slightest...
...extended payment time on the balance to 18 months. But the credit agencies were more conservative. Said John J. Schumann Jr., whose General Motors Acceptance Corp. last year advanced $411 million on the sale of automobiles and other GM products: "It behooves . . . banks and other financing agencies to use their heads as never before." At a meeting of the District of Columbia Bankers' Association the Federal Reserve Board's M. S. Szymczak warned that if bankers permitted the credit structure to get topheavy, as it had in the '20s, "you will again be the scapegoats...
...complaint said that the defendants had managed the sales of nearly 69% of some $20 billion worth of securities issued by the syndicate method (several houses working together) in the last ten years. They did so, the Government charged, by 1) eliminating competition among themselves; 2) preventing the use of competitive bidding for new issues; 3 ) influencing and controlling the corporations issuing securities; 4) concentrating the business in Manhattan; 5) promoting expansions, mergers, consolidations, etc., to drum up more investment business...