Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile industry, another 200 carloads to trailer makers. A relatively new outlet is for concrete forms. Twelve manufacturers fabricate it as artificial tile, and the toy industry takes it in hundreds of carloads. But the building industry is the big market, Presdwood being particularly adaptable to modernistic design. The Masonite house was one of the architectural high spots of Chicago's Century of Progress, was inspected by 3,000,000 people. Latest Masonite product is a laminated plastic, pressed innumerable sheets of thin Presdwood. An addition to the Laurel, Miss, plant to turn out this plastic will be ready...
...saving device was a thorough reorganization of the Schools of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Regional Planning. All three were incorporated as separate departments under a "School of Design". In this way administrative costs were reduced, and the University, now the sole contributor to the Department of Regional Planning, made its support effective...
...said that this tradition is in a large part a tradition of men suc has Kittredge, Theodore Roosevelt, Copeland, T. S. Eliot, Lippman, who as undergraduates at Harvard have helped to form the Advocate into what it is today. Very often indeed the format and design have changed but this spirit of independence has stood throughout...
...Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy...
...public to fly is to design a combination automobile and autogiro (see above). Another way is to build standard airplanes so inexpensively that the public can afford them. Because this necessitates mass production methods such as many automobile makers already have, they have considered going into the business of making "flivver planes." Last week such a flivver plane was sold. It was not made by an automobile manufacturer, but it was powered by a standard mass-produced automobile engine-the Ford...