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...keep on building with doors and windows and separate floor slabs one above the other.'' His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between rooms), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum's wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing...
...workers rather than struggle with wildcat strikes, could see a silver lining. It had reconverted so fast and made so many cars that it might soon have had to set a price to get them off its hands. If it had, it would have laid itself wide-open to undercutting by all the other automakers. Now it could keep its plants closed while the rest caught up. It was a strategy which might appeal to the entire auto industry. If pressed hard enough, might not the automakers shut down until the new war between labor and management is settled...
...Russia's Botvinnik promptly outmaneuvered Denker in 25 lightning-quick moves. All Russians played a wide-open game that left the orthodox Americans staring blankly at their boards. It was not only in politics that the Russians were good chess players...
This week the Army cleared the story of the B-29 Uncle Tom's Cabin, which flew to Tokyo on Dec. 27, and never returned. Other Superforts saw the Cabin, six miles above the target, rammed and ripped wide-open by a Jap fighter. Other Japs pressed in for the kill, but the staggering bomber fought them off and righted itself 3,000 feet below the formation, only to be crashed by another fighter. The Cabin pulled out again at 5,000 with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo...
Said a News editorial: "Jimmy was Mayor 1926-1932; and those were years when New York was a pleasant place to live in. It was a wide-open town, in defiance of the prohibitionists. There may have been some graft changing hands- 'honest graft,' as it was called-but not many people cared. What did matter . . . was that it was fun to be in New York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame...