Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very latest in modern central fire stations. It was built at a cost of $162,000, and is a part of the $7,000,000 construction program inaugurated by Mayor Russell five years ago when he took office. The cost of the building is rated at 35 cents per cubic foot, as compared with a cost of from 48 to 60 cents per cubic foot on similar buildings in Boston...
Last week Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron was awarded the contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record...
...Height regulations in zoning ordinances," Mr. Bassett said, "have brought to American cities greatly improved forms for office buildings, hotels, and other tall structures. Before the days of zoning the tendency was toward the packing box type which produced the greatest number of cubic feet and left the minimum of light and air space for the benefit of neighbors. The first tall building had plenty of light and air, but the fourth and fifth tall buildings surrounding the first brought darkness and unrentability...
...franc loan made by France to the Imperial Government, repudiated by the Soviet, was due for another airing. Even the Red Army was fairly peaceable last week. For weeks past two Moscow military factories have devoted their energies not to engines of death but to a colossal 25,000-cubic-meter gas bag. The balloon and its aluminum gondola was finished last week, only waiting good weather to attempt a stratosphere flight...
...dawn. World trade will revive, under an Air Dictatorship, but national government will remain a thing of the past. Basic English (invented in 1922 by C. K. Ogden) will be the lingua franca of the world. Local coinage will be replaced by the "air-dollar"-valued at one cubic metre weighing ten kilograms and traveling 200 kilometres at 100 km.p.h. By 1965 Wells reaches the bottom of his stocking, triumphantly extracts the Modern World-State as a going concern...