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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabin supercharging, unquestionably one of the greatest advances in store for air transportation, requires special design and construction. It is now under development, and will be first introduced by the Boeing 307 stratoliners that are currently in production for airline service. No other supercharged, sealed cabin commercial transport has been built in America...
...Designers of ship interiors are faced with the fact that decorations which might be diverting on land are often reduced to vulgarity by the Atlantic Ocean. Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design. The modern architecture of Holland, exemplified in the Euclidean beauties of J. J. P. Oud's houses, contains even more. Making safe concessions to the tourist's desire for a "luxury ship," the Nieuw Amsterdam's, designers managed to keep...
Further questioning revealed that 12 persons affiliated with the School of design had contributed one dollar apiece to a pool, each making a guess as to the clock's diameter. Arthur Malsin, Yale '35, won the $11 with a guess of 15 feet, which proved to be correct when two of the students of architecture emerged directly above the time-piece and measured it with a six-foot rule...
Alfonso Ossorio will design the costumes for "Alcestis," and Dr. A. M. G. Little of the Classics Department has made the settings, while Robert D. Woodward '37 is stage-manager and Henry Urews is the House Business Manager...
Disregarding literary content, the volumes are chosen solely on the basis of "sound design and sound workmanship in all respects" from books published in the United States and Canada...