Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered on until his death at 70 in 1952, he never painted again. Said his daughter, Painter Mercedes Matter, "His entire work was characterized by this impetuous moving on toward what he perceived further ahead. From one point of view he could be considered a failure, since there were few places in which he stopped sufficiently to consolidate his position and produce successfully...
...three years, but carmakers did not seem worried so long as sales were still climbing. They plan no major cutback in production until the end of July. The good performance so far this year-some experts predict a 6,000,000-car year - has not changed Detroit's view about the small car. Last week Pontiac and Oldsmobile joined the parade with plans to put out their own compact cars for the fall...
...judge by the contraptions on view and the high-flown talk of motivation, it might have been a meeting of circus showmen or of sociologists. Instead, it was the annual meeting of the Super Market Institute, gathered in Atlantic City last week to demonstrate that today's supermarket operators must be both showmen and sociologists to sell their goods. As choosy as shopping housewives, and twice as voluble, the 13,000 delegates wended their way through aisles crowded with 530 displays, talked about changes in the U.S. supermarket...
...Blough, the issue is vital in view of the global challenge facing U.S. industry. Says he: "We are only in the first skirmishes of a battle of production that is destined to rage for many decades. Whether or not America emerges triumphant depends in large measure on the virility of American industry. And industry's strength depends directly on our ability to win the understanding of Government, of labor leaders, of investors in a national effort to encourage the investment of capital necessary to develop and acquire the finest tools of production on earth...
Gold Braid & Hoop Skirts. Author Basso. 54. is dealing with the same fictional South Carolina town that framed his 1954 bestseller. The View from Pompey's Head, which told of present-day passions in the Tidewater South. The events of this new book are laid a century earlier but. despite the gold braid uniforms and the hoop skirts, the idiom is racily contemporary (says high-born Arabella of a suitor: "All he wanted was a chance to get under my skirts...