Word: done
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When U.S. railroads lost $560 million on their passenger business last year, it was obvious to railmen that something was wrong-and that something had to be done. The Eastern railroads, which had already had fare increases of 28% in about three years, thought that the answer lay in still higher fares. They asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 12½% boost. Last week they got it. But the increase apparently did not solve everything; the news that it had been granted merely started everyone asking again: "What's wrong with the railroads...
...Eastern roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding. Worse still, the railroads had suffered from too much regulation, notably, out-of-date rules intended to keep them from becoming transportation monopolies-something which the buses and airlines now prevent, anyway...
...basement room of a Third Avenue gallery last week hung the second Manhattan exhibition of contemporary Haitian art. Done by houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...
Pigs & Cigarettes. Born in Russia of a Huguenot family, Fabergé had probably studied goldsmithing in Paris, but there was no evidence that he had done a lick of manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls...
...journalism, seldom pauses for reflection or criticism. Its eyewitness reports of the Pacific slugging match are graphic, often moving; but except for interpolations of hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle in Mindoro Strait: "It looked like hell upside down...