Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bohrod, 29, showed new and better work than the half-comic paintings of sleazy Chicago scenes by which he is known. Pontificated New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell: "Between the minor if vaguely haunting tightness of those minutiae and the ripe, fluent graciousness of the present work, a vast difference publishes itself." Still this side of graciousness but studied with uncommon depth were Aaron Bohrod's new subjects: poor whites, exhausted interiors of tourist cabins, a trailer camp, a sidewalk in New Orleans...
...greater glory of the Lord and as a means of relieving unemployment. Jean Cardinal Verdier, benign grey Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris, has for some years pursued a vast churchbuilding program, at one time scheduling no fewer than 100 houses of God for construction over a period of ten years. Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local...
Certain other issues had a better fate last week, notably that of Continental Can Co. whose $20,000,000 of preferred stock, offered at $100 a share, went at a premium of $102, to the vast delight of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Similarly, a new firm named Lane-Wells Co. (which owns a unique process of "blowing in" oil wells with something called a "gun-perforator") successfully sold 40,000 shares at $15 each in its first public financing to the joy of Hartley Rogers & Co. But Continental Can is unusually strong and Lane-Wells enjoys unusual earnings. Other companies, less...
...bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch of the old Boulevard across the Chicago River, which still clotted at each change of a traffic light...
...remove invisible internal stresses from the steel, the mammoth tank was rolled into a vast annealing furnace, where oil burners made it red hot. Workmen inched the completed 230-ton tank out of the Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...