Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plain Tripe. Roaring like a subway express, Commissioner Moses retorted: "This is just plain tripe . . ." He pointed out that the buildings will house more tenants than the "rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the Metropolitan nor public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive...
...Java and China giants are known only by their teeth, and therefore hardly known at all. The tooth-filled jaw of Swartkrans Man should tell more about his size and build...
Ships. The Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. was the low bidder on U.S. Lines' projected new 48,000-ton superliner (TIME, Aug. 2), proposing to build the ship for $67,350,000. The contract must still be approved by the U.S. Maritime Commission...
...over the hotel and making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...
Professor Hooton is now working with six assistants analyzing the statistics. The researchers hope to discover the relationships between weight and build in different types of men. This will be used to determine what work men of certain body build can best perform...