Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live all winter in the same igloo, but every so often build a clean...
...experts had debated how to preserve Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Last Supper, which Allied bombings exposed to the weather after it had already faded and blistered through the years (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week, an Italian Government Advisory Commission came up with a tricky solution: they would build an air-conditioned frame around...
...back in 1936, an eccentric old millionaire popped up on the palm-fringed campus of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. and began looking for a place to build an art museum. Even in those days, Spanish-styled Rollins College was something to behold. Under the unconventional presidency of Hamilton Holt, it was already running heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world...
...principal reason for such relatively painless transition was United's canny wartime conservatism. It did not expand beyond its abilities. Rentschler, who has a dread of spreading the brains too thin, farmed out work to some 650 vendor companies. To build P. & W. engines it licensed, among others, Ford, Buick, Nash-Kelvinator and Continental. Rentschler learned his job in more than 30 years' experience in the aircraft industry...
...Boeing's new Stratocruiser and in nine other new planes now going into production. But the smooth ride has not lulled Rentschler and friends into thinking there may not be rough air ahead, stirred up by jet engines. Two months ago, United acquired the right to build and sell Rolls-Royce's turbojet engine, the Nene. In addition, P. & W. is developing its own jet motor. If, and when, reciprocating engines become obsolete, United intends to be ready...