Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under "National Defense," TIME, April 10 issue, appears an article on the recent Navy Design Competition for boats of the so-called "Mosquito Fleet." I am greatly surprised see TIME exploiting one major award winner, casually mentioning another, and leaving out the other three entirely...
...hunting, Texas' Representative Martin ("Un-American") Dies never put on the stand a real, live, current Communist. This was perhaps intentional. Virginia's Representative Clifton ("Economy") Woodrum last week produced a Communist, and with shrewd design...
...problems which have occupied modern architects, the most unpretentious is the most difficult: how to give urban people decent places to live. In the U. S., the Federal Housing Administration has given great impetus to individual home builders, stimulating architects to think in terms of small-house design. Newly available to them and the public last week were two important sources of light...
...Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...