Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many companies are beginning to realize, such attitudes not only encourage the problem drinker in his course but harm the company itself. The best way to eliminate the cost and waste of problem drinking in industry is to face up to the problem. Says Mrs. Elizabeth D. Whitney, executive director of Boston's Committee on Alcoholism: "We're encouraged by the gradual awakening that has occurred in business and industry. There is a growing awareness that alcoholism is everybody's business, especially that of business...
...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...
Other areas are expanding almost as rapidly. Toward the center of the state, outside Orlando, the Martin Co. is putting up a $27 million missile plant (Lacrosses and Bullpups) that will employ 7,000. Near West Palm Beach, Pratt & Whitney is building a $42 million research and testing plant, has already started to work in part of it to develop new jet engines. And in the missile-laden Cape Canaveral area (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the roster of industrial newcomers reads like the Who's Who of American Industry: Boeing, Chrysler, Convair, Douglas, Fairchild, North American, Northrup, Westinghouse...
From all over the country, industries are swarming to Florida's balmy business climate, with the added incentive of no state income tax. Furthermore, Florida's resortlike climate is sure bait for hard-to-get engineers and topflight executives. When starting its West Palm Beach plant, Pratt & Whitney advertised for engineers in Northern newspapers, offered them a choice of jobs in the Midwest, New England, Florida, California. Florida led the other areas combined...
...dignified with mysterious road signs: Boon, Creation, Fluxus, Rite, House of Venus I. James Ernst coyly offered a Painting with a Secret Title, which resembled a tangle of TV antennas. Such literary hints and gestures were a change from the blunt titles of abstractions in the last few Whitney annuals, which gave merely a number or a date. Possibly more abstract expressionists were beginning to think in terms of meanings, whether or not they painted meaningful pictures...