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...Brothers Granville had rebuilt so many crashes they were ready to build planes of their own. Zantford Granville was the designer, the four younger brothers craftsmen, mechanics. Their first product, the Gee-Bee Sportster, won the favor of Maude Tait Moriarity, woman racing pilot. She persuaded her father, James C. Tait, rich ice cream maker of Springfield, Mass., to back the Granvilles with a factory in Springfield...
...fair opened in Manhattan this week. From Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan came the merchants and the craftsmen. Their wares were new, bright, polished, gorgeous. Transportation was for sale. Better and cheaper...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging...
...Gandhi?though in less degree ?President de Valera is opposed to the Machine Age, vigorously encourages farming, dairying, stock breeding, handicrafts and small-scale peasant industry. The famed Shannon River Power Station has wrought its chief results not in supplying industrial power but in lighting tiny cottages, keeping craftsmen's lathes turning...
Because his wife, the former Didi H. Muus, is Norwegian, Mr. Cohu built for her at Southampton a summer home like a Norwegian mountain house. A Norwegian architect designed it, Norwegian craftsmen were imported to make the wood carvings. Mrs. Cohu named the house Gissa Bu. Her husband, who has never been to Norway, says he does not know what Gissa Bu means...