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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of classrooms, Caudill & Co. have Learning Labs, with light plastic walls that can be put up and taken down in a trice. Along with the Learning Labs are Teaching Elevators that can be equipped by Central Service in any way a teacher wants. Suppose, say the architects, a teacher wants "an aviary with six different species of birds and a soundproof booth where recorded birdcalls can be played ..." What does she do? She simply rings up Central Service, which lowers a Teaching Elevator, equips it as requested, then sends it back up again-"and the teacher has a tailor...
...Tomorrow's School would have a model farm, a domestic zoo, greenhouses, pond, a lake for "kiddie fishing" and a Man-Made Mountain "for children to climb and explore to their hearts' content." And what sort of education will these children be getting? "Dynamic education," say Caudill & Co. grandly. "This must be, because education, like the American way of life, is ever changing, never static...
...Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co.'s 16-ton ''Kompactor," which packs roads by exerting 480 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. with its four giant roller wheels. Each wheel is faced with staggered rows of steel pads that form the compacting surfaces...
...Detroit the Institute of Arts has on display its newest (and sixth) Rembrandt, the small (8½ by 6½ in.) A Woman Weeping, donated by Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., and his wife. Last year Mrs. Ford spotted the small Rembrandt in Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel Inc., felt that it was "one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen." The Fords decided to buy it, paid an estimated $50,000, and made it their first gift to the Detroit museum...
...Iowa Manufacturing Co.'s bituminous paver, which in tests on the Kansas Turnpike laid asphaltic concrete at 84 ft. per minute, twice the normal speed of other pavers. Equipped with electric controls, it can be operated...