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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy atomic experts have been studying hull design and structural stresses. The Navy wants to make at least two tests: 1) of an atomic bomb exploding above the surface; 2) of a bomb exploding underwater at determined depths. For the tests to be worth anything, the Navy figures it will need some 20 to 30 ships-Fleet Admiral Ernest King suggested 80 to 100. Enemy vessels may be used, but the Navy also wants to measure the effect on its own construction...
Some architects have gone back to nature-and more should. So argues Manhattan Engineer Fred M. Severud in the current ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. Says he: "[There are] few problems in structural design which Nature has not already met and solved. By our own standards, her designs are structurally more efficient and esthetically more satisfactory than ours." Some examples...
During the three days of their fourth retreat last week, they followed "a careful pattern of devotion," manual work, discussion and meditation. In the mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...
Said the Speech: "Canada . . . should possess a distinctive national flag. You will be asked to appoint a select committee ... to consider a suitable design. . . . The Government also considers that it is advisable to ... clarify the definition of Canadian citizenship...
Selma Burke, a Negro sculptress and onetime pupil of France's Aristide Maillol, won a nationwide competition to design the plaque. Said she, explaining the less-than-speaking likeness: "I had to make up my mind to show . . . three or four things which I felt he meant to me and millions of others: strength, determination, and that look of going-forwardness...