Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hand in both problems. After World War II, many airlines exuberantly overexpanded. Instead of using its power to impose restraint, CAB approved patchwork and often uneconomic route structures. Result: subsidy payments to airlines jumped from $19.7 million in 1946 to $83.8 million in 1950, before dropping again. Though all trunk lines are now off subsidy, CAB expects to dole out $69.3 million in fiscal 1961 to small feeder airlines, which still do not have enough money to replace their obsolete equipment...
...Rauschenberg calls his works "combines' because they combine painting with props pasted or fastened to the picture ("It begins with a painting and sort of moves out into the room" He gained notoriety by attaching a pillow to a patchwork quilt, splashing paint over them and calling the result The Bed But such beginning efforts had "a souvenir quality, Rauschenberg says, "which I am now trying to kill. Nostalgia tends to eliminate some of the directness. Immediacy is the only thing you can trust " Among the fragments of immediate experience with which Rauschenberg floods his latest work are stuffed...