Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headed the planning team, U.S. Architect Wallace Kirkman Harrison, had expected criticism; Rockefeller Center, which Harrison helped design, was now a much admired part of Manhattan's jagged-edged landscapes but it had raised storms of protest back in 1931. Within Harrison's ten-man team there was a basic unanimity; all ten shared his liking for strict functionalism. Among them: Brazil's brilliant young (39) Oscar Niemeyer, and France's Le Corbusier (real name, Charles Edouard Jeanneret), who invented functionalism's favorite phrase when he described modern houses as "machines for living...
...reader still remain unhorrified? With dry, deadpan irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
Helicopter manufacturers were not too much disheartened by the accidents. President Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft pointed out that airplanes are 43 years old; helicopters are only nine. They are already useful for "specialized assignments such as crop dusting, mapping, rescue. . . ." Better design and accumulating experience, Bell believes, "will hasten the time of wide public...
Functional design will be the keynote of the Lamont Undergraduate Library, whose construction begins this summer and should be finished by the fall...
...news was that Kaiser-Frazer Corp. had lost $19,284,680.83 in 1946. The loss was huge. But K-F said it was not quite as bad as it looked. For one thing, K-F had written off in one year the cash it had spent for engineering, design, and preparation for auto production. How much this was K-F did not say. Ordinarily auto companies spread these costs over a longer period...