Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered 2½-room cooperative apartments in a "new development" with "elevator, steam heat, Frigidaires." The trail led to a grimy old six-story tenement with an assessed value of $15,000, in a run-down neighborhood off First Avenue. The modern apartments existed only on a set of architect's plans, the building was not open for inspection, the work of remodeling had not yet started. But the owner easily sold 14 apartments for $3,500 each, and the monthly carrying charges were far above rents prevailing in that neighborhood...
...Precision-Built Homes Corp. will offer 40 models priced from $3,700 to $10,000. President F. Vaux Wilson Jr. shuns the word "prefabrication" (as does many another company), proudly points out that Precision-Built will build according to architect's plans selected by individual customers. Builder Wilson originally founded the company to help sell his Homasote wallboards, built 5,000 houses in 138 days for the U.S. Navy in Portsmouth, Va. Department stores are now taking orders. But Precision's Milwaukee plant will not be in production until spring...
...build and stock an art museum. His first will, drawn in 1936, had left the money to Duke University; if Duke didn't want it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. Third choice: Rollins. Duke invited Ackland down for a visit, set an architect to drawing plans. Obviously pleased, Ackland drew up a second will, which made no mention of North Carolina, left a few token legacies to relatives and Rollins. It bequeathed to Duke not only about $1,250,000 for the art museum but the mortal remains of William Ackland...
...White House was due for its first remodeling since President Coolidge fire-proofed it in 1927. The architect, Lorenzo S. Winslow, unrolled his drawing of a new, L-shaped addition designed to flow so subtly from the West Wing that it would leave the mansion's historic Georgian lines practically undisturbed...
...returned doctors to help their patients find them. Most of the addresses were homes. Dr. John J. Dwyer 1) found his old apartment house no longer available for doctors' offices; 2) learned that a former medical building was now full of lawyers and optometrists; 3) made an architect laugh when he suggested remodeling a store; 4) made a contractor laugh when he suggested buying and fixing up a building for doctors' offices; 5) wound up in a dentist's tiny storeroom...