Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the British Admiralty, dynamic Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, continued last week his series of public speeches, which are proving so popular in the United Kingdom as to build him up handsomely as a candidate to succeed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Sir Samuel has already cheered Navy-loving Britons by telling them that the battleplane has by no means yet supplanted the battleship. Last week he drew thunderous London cheers with a bristling disparagement of both Fascism and Communism...
...most of them succeed. Son of a Baltimore banker, Adolph B. Hirschmann, he studied economics at Johns Hopkins, left at 17, took up music with Peabody Institute instructors. At 20 he got a job as office boy in L. Bamberger & Co.'s department store, Newark. There he helped build radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts for three years, was appointed sales and publicity director at 23. Six years later he took the same post with Lord & Taylor's store, planned their crisp black and white advertisements, recommended more truthful copy, fewer superlatives. In 1935 Saks Fifth...
What motor makers can do in slow seasons is to build up inventories of parts, particularly sub-assembly jobs like axles, motors, transmissions. Notable have been the results. In 1934 at the bottom of the production curve when output was running about 20,000 cars per week, the industry was providing less than 8,500,000 man-hours of work per week. Last year the worst figure, when production was at almost the same level, was 12,000,000 man-hours per week. Total work provided by "banking" in the past motor year is estimated...
...discover the type of home desired by the average U. S. citizen, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. lately questionnaired 250,000 customers in upState New York. From plans based on a composite of 11,000 replies, the big utility will build model homes as a promotional push. Last week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which prepared and interpreted the survey, published its findings...
...parts of the university are machines and mechanics able to construct anything from high-power electro magnets to the smallest of glass tubing. The Maintenance Ships next to Dunster House contain all the equipment needed to keep up the University, while out of their own resources the scientific departments build some of the finest and most complicated devices found anywheres...