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Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...
...herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
...little over 22,000 feet . . . and just when I am beginning to wonder how much less oxygen I can get along without, there is the sun! From the strangely low angle it seems to pop up at us. The chromium plated struts gleam and twinkle, and the vivid orange wings take on new light...
...modern trailer is no longer an ugly wooden box. Anywhere from 14 to 30 feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum...
...important combinations of principles or methods already known," as a result of work which had set him on the road to fortune, if not fame, 31 years ago. Mr. Marsh's profitable discovery was made in 1905. He fused a new alloy called Chromel-20% chromium, 80% nickel- which is still the only alloy or metal (except costly platinum) capable of offering prolonged electric resistance without burning out. Of this alloy or its variants are now made the wire elements which glow in electric stoves, heaters, curling irons, percolators, toasters, sterilizers, waffle irons, cigaret lighters, bed pads. Such...