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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Burns takes over Ordnance in June, when the four-year term of Major General Charles Macon Wesson expires. Under Brass Hat "Bull" Wesson, Army Ordnance had a mottled record. The start of World War II caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks...
...Hill brick against the late afternoon sky. Carl Pickhardt '31 has four lithographs in the show, all very simply and very powerfully executed, especially the "Pieta" and the "Christ at Emmaus," with its Grecolike faces, and minimum of light areas. His work suggests the influence of stained-glass window design, with heavy lines blocking off areas of black and white...
...Washington, with anti-aircraft guns less defiladed by stacks and superstructure than any of her forebears, has a mighty slug in her guns, plenty of speed to dodge while the battle is on. Her successors will go farther still. But none will go so far as the dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably...
...years ago. They had high praise for planes mainly built of wood on grounds of greater maneuverability, especially on quickly built temporary landing fields. The Army explains that it is not yet ready for wooden combat planes, is meanwhile ordering more & more wooden primary trainers, has available a design for an advanced trainer in which priority precious metals may be replaced by wood and low-alloy steel...
Conductor Stokowski knew from experiments in Paramount's and Walt Disney's studios what scientific design could do for acoustics. He went into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...