Word: architects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platoon of major and minor Reynolds executives. Subject of the many speeches was the ''Reynolds Specification House" (TIME, Sept. 2). Starting last year Reynolds offered to furnish most of the materials and equipment needed to build a home. Reynolds engineers take the plans of client's architect, draw up specifications for factory-fabricated units, which are sold through local dealers, assembled by local workmen. Reynolds supervises the job, will even arrange for financing...
...present lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...
Clinton Hoadley Crane, 63, naval architect, mining engineer, president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead...
...seamy, saturnine man of 50, Captain Lehmann's career makes him fully equipped to command Germany's greatest airship. A naval architect on Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff, he was operating the dirigible Sachsen when the War began. As a raider, he bombed Antwerp once, London twice, afterwards claimed he could have destroyed the British capital completely if the Germans had so desired. Once he went home with 400 bullet holes in his ship's fabric. Continuing in the profession after the War, he rose to be assistant director of the Zeppelin works, alternated with...
After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...