Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were due largely to his superior work. The 1896?97 model was mostly his design and the first SDs were close copies. Failing health caused him to retire...
...cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery to the Imperialist Powers." Last week in this defiant spirit General Ismet opened at Bakirkoy the first of several new State cotton mills, a magnificent plant of latest design with 9,000 spindles, 335 looms and a production of 9,500,000 yards of cotton cloth per year...
Twelve years ago Hood was a clientless architect in Manhattan, married and $10,000 in debt. News came that a design he had drawn for the $7,000,000 Chicago Tribune Tower had won its $50,000 competition prize. He had to borrow to buy an overcoat to travel to Chicago and collect his money. Because he had submitted his design from the office of John Mead Howells he had to turn $40,000 of his prize over to that New York architect. Soon he had all the commissions he wanted. A strident exponent of functionalism, a reckless experimenter...
Midinettes and Vendeuses consider it a privilege to work in her house, though she is often autocratic, impatient and hasty. She arrives promptly at 10 o'clock, opens and answers every letter herself, signs every check. She can design gowns with pencil and shears but more often puts them together in her head while driving in a motorcar. At her opening last week, clad in a last season's black crepe dress, she tied each scarf and fastened each belt on the mannequins before they left the cabine. Then she hastily escaped to her studio...
...building program. Last week the Institute announced plans for the first of three major additions which will eventually make the Institute a huge quadrangle of art between Michigan Avenue and the Outer Drive. No Chicago wiseacre was surprised to learn that the winner of the design competition was the Chicago architectural firm of Holabird & Root...