Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Design for Living. The Federal Communications Commission, which has been holding hearings on postwar broadcasting and microwave plans, heard the most ambitious yet. The Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a major manufacturer of electronic tubes for the Army & Navy, announced that it is prepared to begin construction this year of a coast-to-coast chain of microwave transmitting stations along airline routes. This system, says Raytheon, will...
...seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator, Alan Priest, who directed the show, could safely write: "In design, in color, in texture, in execution and conception they are beyond anything else that human beings have ever devised to clothe themselves...
...knife-edged wing which helps "master the problems encountered when the speed of sound [about 750 m.p.h.] is approached or surpassed." The rest is in such things as the ship's light weight and her powerful jet engine (improved and built by General Electric from an original British design). One of the engine's best attributes: it can be replaced in 15 minutes-against an average of nine hours for the standard plane's reciprocating engine. This will please hard-worked ground crews...
...carefully timed news release, Pan Am dazzled its competitors and prospective passengers by announcing that it had ordered a fleet of the new Consolidated Vultee 375, which are still in the design stage. These six-motored flying leviathans are planned to carry 204 passengers at speeds over 300 m.p.h., have a range, when fully loaded, of 4,200 miles...
...excursion train, took Durand and a party of colleagues on a cross-country junket. The six-car train, equipped with piano, sofas, sleeping quarters and a photographic darkroom, stopped wherever an artist felt the urge to sketch. A popular success, Durand eventually became president of the National Academy of Design...