Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted fame," Wright confessed in later years. "Instead, I became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of International Style architecture, Wright was represented, but in effect considered already dead and buried...
With Wright's dramatic comeback, clients once again sought out the master, but on his own terms. To own a Wright house, young couples went into hock for years, docilely took dictation from the master on how they were to live. In such a favorable climate, Wright was often carried away by the sheer momentum of his own self-confidence. His T-square and triangle elaborated spaces on the drafting table that often owed more to forceful geometry than practicality; he designed hexagonal bedrooms, built shoulder-pinching corridors. For the late Solomon R. Guggenheim he designed a museum...
Instead of waiting as usual for the United Steelworkers to strike the first blow in contract negotiations, management made the first move. To the Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week went a letter from twelve big steel companies asking for a one-year extension from this June 30 of the present wage agreement, without any increase in benefits. Although the recovery is making "moderate progress," said the letter, there is a disturbing "bulge of synthetic demand" created by fear of a steel strike, and it could lead to "decline and dislocation" later. To keep the economy...
American Motors' economy claims got a boost last week in an open trial-the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. At the end of the five-day, 1.898-mile trip from Los Angeles to Kansas City, Mo. the honors went to a Rambler American Deluxe driven by Woody Bell, 44. The Rambler topped the 47-car field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis...
...shareholders of the Alleghany Corp. holding company last week went proxy statements nominating Anita O'Keeffe Young,* sixtyish widow of Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, tp the Alleghany board. Mrs. Young, who is sure to be elected, has a heavy personal stake in the holding company once run by her husband. Counting Alleghany securities she owned before his death and what she inherited, her investment in the company is now worth around $9,000,000, second only to the $11 million interest of Alleghany Chairman and President Allan Kirby. Mrs. Young was long a silent partner in her husband...