Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hotel Statler this week knew that Albert Kahn's contribution toward the defeat of the Axis powers had been greater than that of many a general. In nearly every United Nations industrial stronghold, from Detroit to Novosibirsk, his art is conspicuous. Albert Kahn, 73, father of modern factory design, is the world's No. 1 industrial architect...
...combing the U.S. for a man who could furnish the building brains for Russia's industrialization, offered the job to Kahn. Twenty-five Kahn engineers and architects went to Moscow. They had to start from scratch. Russia not only lacked factories, but the pencils and drafting boards to design them. There was only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could make the Russians understand what they were talking about. Raw recruits from Russia's farms and city streets had to be converted...
...Himself a product of the great manufacturing system that grew up in Detroit with the expansion of the modern automobile industry, he has applied the principles of mass production to the art of architecture. His Detroit offices, now running on a feverish schedule, are a veritable factory of factory design...
...certain pieces of music, certain radio programs? That is a problem Dr. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, bulgy and beaming director of Columbia University's Office of Radio Research, has long pondered. Dr. Frank Stanton, yellow-haired director of research for CBS, ponders it likewise, and he also loves to design machines. Soon after Stanton and Lazarsfeld got together in 1937, they started work on a dingus that would record people's reaction to radio programs. Last week they were ready to disclose the dingus' disclosures...
...students and faculty in residence during the summer are cordially invited to attend this Convocation. This includes students in Harvard College, the Harvard Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, of Education, of Engineering, and of Design, as well as students in Radcliffe College and others in attendance only during the Summer Term...