Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Told of the Navy's great need, Higgins designed and built a 45-ft. lighter in two and a half days. In two weeks, he turned out nine more. The forces afloat liked them, still distrusted the Bureau design...
...Museum of Modern Art of New York has sent a "Look at Your Neighborhood" exhibit to the Harvard School of Design. A collection of suggestions for post-war neighborhood improvements, it will be open to the public in Robinson Hall at the School of Design daily and Sundays during the rest of this month...
...mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
...Detroit exhibit, auto designers had an imaginative picnic displaying postwar "dream cars." Dreamiest of the lot was a design by free-lance artist Ray Russell (see cut) who described the features: "Drive across Texas at 100 miles an hour . . . the tail fin to line her up at this speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates...
...Regardless of the enemy design," said the voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank...