Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small (pop. 19,000) upstate New York glass-manufacturing center of Corning. On view in the Corning Museum of Glass, which is part of the new laboratory and research center of the Corning Glass Works (makers of Steuben crystal) are 128 choice examples from the greatest age of Venetian glassmaking: the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries...
...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...
...main reason for this poor showing does not lie in the guaranty program itself. Any U.S. investor in a country included in the program-from Venetian-blind makers in The Netherlands to rayon manufacturers on Formosa-can apply for insurance covering the full value of the investment. Policies bear a relatively modest annual premium of one-half of 1%. In the event of a claim, the U.S. Government takes upon itself to save or recover the investment, gives full restitution to the U.S. firm before undertaking legal and diplomatic action to collect. Premiums paid by protected firms go into...
Latest entry in the VTOL (Vertical take-off and landing) competition is the Bell X-14, which achieves vertical flight in a horizontal flying attitude by means of a Venetian blind. The X-14 has two Armstrong Siddeley jet engines that give more than 3,500 lbs. of thrust, their hot gas shooting out horizontally under the fuselage. When the X-14 is rigged to take off vertically, a system of vanes like a Venetian blind deflects the gas downward. The thrust, acting upward, lifts the craft off the ground...
...tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then the X-14 flies like an ordinary jet plane, supported by the lift of its wings and controlled by its conventional ailerons and tail surfaces...