Word: designates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churned with conflicting streams of humanity: urbanites leaving for the country, vacationers coming back, foreigners seeking refuge or trying to leave for home (see p. 40). All Germans were ordered out by their Embassy. But life went on unchanged for lots of people. Dancer Tilly Losch proceeded with her design to marry young Lord Carnarvon. Promoters went ahead with a walkingstick show, were miffed when Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to let his umbrella be exhibited. But 19 walking sticks owned by Lady du Maurier were there, one containing a telescope, another a gold toothpick...
...world was at peace, Sperry plugged away at its gyros, turned out compasses for surface ships and submarines, stabilizers for seagoing craft from yachts to liners, automatic pilots and gyro instruments for aircraft. It also got many a confidential job from Army and Navy, soon branched out into the design and manufacture of complicated fire control devices, antiaircraft searchlights. Prize Sperry antiaircraft product is the Sound Locator-Searchlight, which picks out flying raiders by sound, focuses the lights on them, trains antiaircraft guns so that they "lead" bombing flights as a duck-hunter leads a flying mallard...
Since the garaging of the Capone machine, Jack Bilbo has had a hand in several less lucrative activities abroad-organizing anti-Nazi movements in Germany (pre-Hitler), fighting for Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, for the Spanish Loyalists in Catalonia. On the side he says he found time to design three German villas and his own residence in Spain...
...proud of Comet's line which, besides modern tricycle landing gears, includes accessories, model engines ($9.95 to $21.50), propellers (Comet produces 90% of the props used by the U.S. model business). Sam Goldenberg is vice president, directs the factory. Bill Bibichkow is treasurer and directs model design. He is proudest of Comet's crack designer, 26-year-old Carl Goldberg, who won five of the six first places in the National Aeronautic Association model contest at Detroit last month, brought three cases full of trophies along with him when he gave up his amateur standing and went...
...mass suggested by the main rural exposition building at Brno, Czecho-Slovakia, St. Austin's was designed as a simple parabolic vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...