Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lippisch escaped from Vienna just ahead of the invading Russians. He now works for the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has an embryo aeronautical division. His aerodyne* (he refuses to have it called an airplane), which has flown only in the form of small electrically powered models, is truly wingless. It looks like a fuselage with no wings, and it gets its lift from a blast of air blown out through a big hole in its belly. The air comes in through the nose, is compressed and speeded up by a jet engine driving internal propellers. Then...
Kwakiutl chief once explained. Warriors, squaws and children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland...
...were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors. Such gods as Bear and Wolf might be decorated with fur and shredded cedar-bark wigs. Other masks were provided with movable lower jaws or a concealed inside image...
...building plant scattered over 22 acres in the stockyards area. Main reason: because of improvements in transportation, refrigeration and communication, slaughterhouses are moving steadily closer to the range. To follow the trend, Wilson will spend $4,500,000 to expand and modernize plants in Omaha, Albert Lea, Minn, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...Bigness Alone. Stretched over 570 acres along the Red Cedar River, the university has less than $5,000,000 to go to complete a $50 million building program, begun by President John Hannah in 1946. Along Harrison Road, a row of brick and glass dormitories costing $8,000,000 is now near completion. A $4,000,000 library and $2,500,000 housing development for married students will be finished by fall, and a $4,000,000 Animal Industries Building will go up some time next winter. All this is not done in the name of bigness alone...