Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started last autumn when Chicago's architects gave a Fête Charrette for unemployed architects at the Drake Hotel (TIME, Oct. 10). They rigged up a Quartier Latin of wall board and in one of the concessions they established a life class model, better looking than most, who supplied an eyeful to non-professional guests at $1 a head. The venture was such a success that famed John Wellborn Root and other architects got Merchant George Lytton and others to put up a guarantee fund with which to build the $250,000 Streets of Paris on the World...
...trying to wipe out in one year the deficit accumulated since 1929, that, at 1932's end, had been less than $7,000,000. As for 1933's genuine deficit of $1,162,940, that had already been disposed of by postponing a fortnight the schools' autumn opening. Without curtailment of a single school activity, concluded Dean Judd triumphantly, the board would end 1933 not only without a deficit but with a surplus of more than...
Clippers. Equipment means airplanes. The first two of six flying boats, larger than any aircraft heretofore constructed in the U. S., are now abuilding for Pan American. From the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, which will produce three of the boats, the first will emerge for flight tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they...
When two polar bears in Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo ducked and drowned a small black bear last autumn (TIME, Nov. 7), the Zoo's Director Edmund Heller was indulgent. He compared the duckers to playful small boys, did not even feel it necessary to abandon his experiment of keeping various kinds of bears and wolves together in large open dens...
...Niobe sat and sulked by the edge of the pool because Dion had gone away into the mountains and would not return until Autumn. At first she had sobbed and threw herself on the ground and pulled out tufts of grass angrily. Then a beautiful blue butterfly had alighted on a thistle and she had watched it absorbed. For a moment a catapillar's struggle with an ant amused her. Bending over the pool, Niobe combed out her long black hair and admired her small tan shoulders. She had even twisted a garland of lacy white flowers which...