Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference drew to a weary close, one agreement was reached that lighted up the new situation: Secretary Marshall and Foreign Ministers Bevin and Bidault concluded an agreement giving France coal from British and U.S. occupation zones of Germany. This was further evidence that the U.S. really meant to help build and guarantee a stable Europe (see below). Such moves as the French coal pact would speak more persuasively to the Russians than all the voices in all the conference rooms...
...first venture in South America, but it will not be his last. Raymond Loewy Associates recently opened an office in Sao Paulo (the others, aside from headquarters in a Manhattan skyscraper, are in South Bend, Chicago, Los Angeles). Loewy is now working on a deal to build an entire industrial town, for the same Sao Paulo interests. Next step is to reopen its office in London, from which the firm plans to expand abroad. Most of his ideas, says Loewy, are intended "not for Park Avenue but for the miner's wife," are thus marketable anywhere...
...other men had built autos, but Henry Ford had a special theory. Build them cheap, he said, so everyone could own one. Make them simple, he said. The Model T had only 5,000 parts, counting every last nut. Standardize the parts, he said, so that anyone could buy a new carburetor in any one of the thousands of garages which he visualized springing up across the country. The Model T was high-slung, narrow-wheeled and homely. Said Ford: "Customers can have it painted any color they want so long as it's black." He turned...
...Team. Despite Patterson's bounce, drive, and salary and bonuses of $50,000 a year, he does not fly United alone. Says he: "I can't build an airline myself. I surround myself with good men . . . give them every chance. This means they'll do good work and make me look good...
While the scrubwoman wades slowly down the floor, first one and then another of the villagers drops in for late morning coffee and gossip. They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have...