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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military work is also the chief present concern of the station's soil-mechanics laboratory, which was added in 1931 to study river silts and the shape, seepage and settling of levees and earthen dams. Soil engineers and chemists now study design of military airports, use of cemented soils for runways (TIME, Nov. 17). And a cell first designed to measure pressures within earthen dams is now used by the Army to record effects of explosions on experimental air-raid shelters...
...latest offerings at the University are not going to win any Academy Awards, but they have this virtue--if you can somehow manage to avoid the newsreel, they will provide three hours of uninterrupted laughs that -- unlike Pearl Harbor, Singapore, et al--are not on you. "Design for Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn...
...Design for Scandal" is a tribute to Rosalind Russell's versatility as a comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
...first few thousand models. To keep itself from being flooded with worthless models, the Navy will work through local authorities, is likely at first to confine model making to school,under direct supervision. All models will be painted black, since recognition experience is supposed to come through knowledge of design and outline of planes, not through colors or insignia...
...American Legion commissioned him to design a stained-glass window for the Cedar Rapids Memorial Coliseum. He went to Munich. There, in the work of 15th-and 16th-Century Flemish and German primitives in the Munich museums, he found at last the infinitely scrupulous, polished and detailed kind of painting he had always wanted to do. He returned to Cedar Rapids with a new way of looking at things, started to paint Iowa with the meticulous care of a Memling in modern dress. Two years later American Gothic, exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, created a furor, and Painter Wood...