Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This will require that programs be transmitted simultaneously under both sets of standards when the new system is ready. . . In this way the public's investment in receiving equipment will be protected in that all programs may be received either with a receiving set of present design or one of future design to accommodate the new system...
...Harvard School of Design is now offering a new photographic exhibition of many Pacific Coast buildings designed by the modernistic architect, William W. Wurster. His 30 years of work, consisting of country houses, town houses, and public and commercial buildings will be part of the presentation at Robinson Hall, open daily to the public...
What are the bedroom and bathroom habits of the nation? In the interest of postwar housing design, the John B. Pierce Foundation of Manhattan, a housing research group, investigated this question. The Foundation made a study of 131 typical families (income: $2,000 to $3,000). Findings...
Credits and Debits. Josephson is sure it did. Pan Am pioneered oceanic flying for the U.S., helped design the "Clippers" to do it (although Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky wailed that they never made money selling them to Trippe) and gave the U.S. domination in South America over Germany's Lufthansa, Air France and Italy's Lati. More important, Pan Am charted the transoceanic routes which became invaluable in war. As Trippe recalled: "Why, sometimes nobody in the State Department, or even the Navy, had ever heard of some of the places we wanted to get to, places...
...latter, he took a draftsman's job at Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. He went into selling because a Colgate executive questioned the impact of one of his layouts and he had to prove personally how good it was. The nearest he has been to architecting since was to design his colonial house in Barrington, Ill. and his redwood ranch house in San Diego County, Calif...