Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the placid waters of broad Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what the finest...
...retirement of Dr. Cole and the appointment of Dr. Rivers called attention to a little known but important section of a well known research foundation. Two structures separated from the larger buff brick Institute building which sits among a grove of young sycamores on the bank of Manhattan's East River, the hospital is like few others in the world. Sixty-nine patients can be accommodated, but seldom are there more than 45. At their services are 35 medical specialists, a staff of trained nurses, all the laboratory facilities of the entire Institute. And no patient's money...
...South Chicago Avenue, ten miles from Chicago's swank Loop shopping district, stands a big, three-story brick building that used to be a bag factory. Today it houses a typical supermarket, Depression's great contribution to U. S. retailing. This supermarket, Trading Post, Inc., was founded in 1934 by Roy O. Dawson with the backing of the Bristol brothers, Lee, Henry and William (of Bristol-Myers...
...that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor of a grimy yellow brick building, white-crowned old Master Abbott pulled out a bound document, adjusted his pince-nez, began to read aloud to himself. Sixteen times had Mr. Abbott tried to sell the railroad, and he was not surprised that no one showed up for 17th offering...
...their kind made in modern times, were put in place April 24, completing the design of the Biological Laboratories, built in 1931. They have been three years in preparation by Miss Lane, who also worked out the other decorations of the building, including the frieze of animals carved in brick on the facade and the intricately fashioned metal doors...