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...which made $34,500,000 in 1937, is not only one of the few U. S. railroads in the black but is the only profitable woof left in the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen railroad and real-estate empire's tangled warp. C. & O. is controlled by Chesapeake Corp., a holding company which owns 35% of its common stock. Chesapeake Corp. in turn is controlled by Alleghany Corp., another holding company which owns 71% of its stock. Last year, after the Vans had died, the chief backer of their declining years, Glass Tycoon George A. Ball, sold...
...bring home to the average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself." As an exposition of The World of Tomorrow, Mr. Whalen explained, the Fair would be devoted to functional art, "woven into the very warp and woof" of avenues and buildings. "Instead of a few hundred thousand people seeing the old masters isolated in one building," he proclaimed, "50,000,000 visitors will find art all around them-to the right, to the left and even underfoot...
...keep out of war is at best a complicated problem. Economic rivalry, racial and class hatred, propaganda of powerful interests, and the shibboleth of "national honor", all combine to warp the individual's judgment, especially in times of tension. The effect a single person can exercise in molding public opinion is pitifully small, so that the wish a person may have to be a force for peace is hampered by lack of knowledge of how to go about it, and by a feeling of futility in not getting very much done. Yet the most effective method of keeping the peace...
...original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled learnedly of high warp, low warp, ribs and slips, joined plain gallery-goers in gasps of sincere tribute to the vivid colorings, the exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even the blurred edges of pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic...
...Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard cards are now made from the design by automatic machinery...