Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cesare Covre is a Roman glass-cutter. He got an order to make two glass tables of intricate design for a customer in the U.S. A fast worker, Covre finished the tables in 52 hours, packed them for shipment...
Looking Backward. As Adam's wife, Sophie's abilities as a designer have not always been above suspicion in the skeptical dress industry. Her rivals try to belittle her by saying: "After all, she's the boss's wife." But no one who knows Adam really believes that that's the answer. Sophie has her job because she has earned it. And in the backbiting world of fashion she is quite able to take care of herself. As Sophie says, in her most ladylike tones: "After all, my dear, Hattie Carnegie isn't really...
...design for Broadway shows. So Sophie designed for 29 shows one year and 32 the next: among them were Dodsworth, The Women, Reunion in Vienna. As customers began to find their way to the salon, she dropped all theatrical designing except as an occasional favor for one of her friends. The profit was not worth the worry. "They always beat down your price and then wanted another 10% off for the publicity," Sophie says...
Exhumed. Chicago Brass Manufacturer Marshall Merkes announced that he had bought the remaining inventory and blueprints of the fabulous Duesenberg automobile from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Co. Merkes hired the late Fred Duesenberg's younger brother August to design him an eight-cylinder engine with an injection-type fuel feed for a new custom-made Duesenberg. The price: "No less than $25,000, probably more...
...A.E.C.'s report contains a grisly hint about the early stages of bomb taming: "Original design, testing and construction were undertaken by a group working with the late Dr. Louis Slotin, victim of a radiation accident at the Los Alamos Laboratory...