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...billion dollars....The assets of each of those giant corporations are subject to authoritarian control by the corporate managers while the control a State exercises over the property within its boundaries is rigidly limited....Each of these corporations has an influence that is national and even international in its scope....They are economic states...
...paint this pattern, to cull and condense and throw into his medium the essence of the age in which he lives is the high purpose of the dramatist. Some dramatists limit their scope to the portrayal of but one shadow, some become hopelessly embroiled in combinations too great for their artistry, but once in a great while a dramatist avoids the overemphasis of one hue to the exclusion of all others and sometimes he avoids the dilemma of a canvass splattered with all hues. When he has done this he has created a clay in which the pertinent colors...
...frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic survey of the century-the Civil War in 7.000 plates. No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples : a covered-wagon caravan forming...
...survey will involve appraisals of every house as to present value and cost of needed repairs. HOLC figures that financing such repairs would make its mortgages more secure, give mortgage companies more scope for investment, reward the city with sounder tax values, besides assisting the building industry, raising the local standard of living. Boasts HOLC's Maryland Director Herbert L. Grymes of his reconditioning division: "For every dollar we have spent in improvements, the properties have gained $2.44. . . ." Last week the U. S. Government also did the following for and to U. S. Business...
Most of the plans and photographs on view in the exhibit at the Architectural School are of works done abroad. The designs are illustrated by many fine pictures with plans that he has drawn attached. Showing well the wide scope of his imagination is the "Garden City of the Future." The buildings are arranged so that a maximum amount of light enters every part and with wide expanses of glass and white glistening exteriors the impression given is that of light, airy construction. Wide boule-yards run symmetrically throughout the city and on every side are beautifully landscaped gardens...