Word: tubular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caditz got his answer in two parts: 1) a friendly letter from Matisse, 2) a tubular package which arrived last week. Caditz, knowing from the letter that something good was on the way, called in his friends and opened the package with ceremony and champagne. Inside was a delicate pen & ink sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request...
...work. The auto industry was hard hit. Output, which had been running at 130,000 units a week before the strike, was down to 73,000, and dropping fast. Chrysler announced that it was closing all car and truck plants this week. Ford was so short of tubular steel that it even had to stop production of 3.5-in. bazookas...
...Bauhaus, Gropius gathered a brilliant group of teachers and students to apply his ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...
...industry has been asked to drill 43,000 new wells this year and to expand refining capacity by a million barrels a day. It can do so if it gets the tubular steel...
...started a Milwaukee machine shop in 1874, revolutionized the bicycle industry. He replaced the frames built of heavy, costly solid iron with light, strong frames made of steel sheets rolled into tubes. His son, Arthur O. (for Oliver) Smith, who gave the company its present name, used the tubular construction to build the industry's first pressed-steel auto frames (for the 1903 Peerless...