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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added to the curricula of almost all the graduate schools it was revealed in an official announcement from--University Hall recently. Most notable of all is a complete reorganization that has gone into effect at the School of Architecture, which has broadened its training to include instruction in functional design, city planning, and other phases of construction and engineering closely allied to modern architecture...
...boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible to steer, Bellport drifted into a marker, received another disqualification, withdrew. Ruth Sears, who had finished second in the first race, found a puff on the last leg of the three-mile triangular course and won. Next day the breeze was brisk in the morning, light...
Just before he boarded Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to go fishing last week President Roosevelt appointed a Planning & Coordination Committee for the oil industry. It was the last big jig in the Government's design for oil's recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon...
Chiefly famed as an aircraft designer for the Navy and for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., of which he is vice president, Jerome Clarke Hunsaker is not new to teaching or to M.I.T. Graduated high in his class from Annapolis in 1908 he was selected the following year for the Corps of Naval Constructors and sent to M.I.T. for advanced work. Aeronautics as a science did not then exist in the U.S., but a beginning had been made abroad. A request from M.I.T. to the Navy Department, and Jerome Hunsaker was on his way to England and France where he studied wind...
...unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose...