Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cutten found an accumulated deficit of $700,000 and proceeded to make academic history by clearing a surplus for his college every year for 17 successive years. He doubled Colgate's faculty, plant and total assets (now $9,961,054), brought in able young teachers, hired a landscape architect to beautify the campus, made the most of the prestige won for his college by its great football teams. He also introduced in 1928 the famed Colgate Plan, since copied by many other colleges. Similar to the Chicago Plan, it gives freshmen broad survey courses of fields such as physical...
...years Globe American had been building stoves and ranges. To tall, black-haired, New England-bred Alden Chester, vice president, defense work seemed more important. Last summer he decided that steel lifeboats could as easily be assembly-lined as stoves. Alden Chester hired a naval architect to look over minimum Government specifications, draw up blueprints. They were adopted by the Maritime Commission as standard equipment for the Liberty ships last Aug. 4, and Globe American got a $1,500,000 contract for 1,248 of them. Globe American started boat production on Dec. 1. As prime contractor, it "co-contracted...
...Manhattan's Architectural League last week, Architect Lorimer Rich (designer of the Unknown Solidier monument at Arlington Cemetary) belatedly celebrated it with an exhibition of maps models and photographs. Architect Rich's exhibition showed what a beautiful job an unfettered planner can do with a city. It also showed that, in a fluid age of mechanical progress, cities must be planned, not like timeless monuments, but like elastic military campaigns...
...Field Marshal and a donkeyman, a woman fireman and a countess, a former Lord Justice and an architect, King George VI last week gave due honor for their services to the Empire. In this year of war the New Year's honors list ran into hundreds of names, was 56 pages long, as against 44 last year. Most honors went for war services, overseas and at home. Two Britons were elevated to the peerage...
Possibly the most treasured honor, the Order of Merit (only 24 holders), went to Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, distinguished architect (Whitehall Cenotaph), president of the Royal Academy...