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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary studies for the New York World's Fair and original lithographs of Boulder Dam and other national engineering projects are now on display in Robinson Hall, main building of the Graduate School of Design...
...Navy Department bases its predictions of success for the ARD-3, which will cost about twice as much as a stationary drydock, on its experience with the ARD-1, a small experimental craft of some similar design, which it has been trying out for two years on small destroyers and submarines. When bids are opened this week for the construction of the ARD-3, shipbuilders will be preparing bids for the building of the ARD-2, a sister dock of the experimental ARD-1, which is 446 ft. long. The ARD3 is intended for use in the Pacific and will...
Died. Ernest Robert Graham, 68, famed, prolific Chicago architect; of high blood pressure brought on by overwork; in Chicago. Schooled by the late great Daniel H. Burnham, he collaborated in planning Chicago's 1893 Fair. In Chicago he designed or helped design the Field Museum, Union Station, Merchandise Mart ("world's largest building"), Marshall Field department store, Civic Opera and Wrigley Buildings; in Manhattan, Wanamaker's and Gimbel's stores, the Flatiron, Equitable and Chase National Bank Buildings; for Washington, the Union Station and General Post Office; California's Mount Wilson Observatory...
...University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History delivered the only public lecture at the National Academy of Sciences convention in Chicago, he again proved that a dramatic simplification of an old scientific idea makes good listening for laymen. His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge...
...influence has been an inspiring one throughout his career here and his loss is a severe blow to the School," said Joseph F. Hudnut, Dean of the School of Design, who announced the resignation Saturday...