Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gossip was again exhibited when J. Pierpont Morgan and U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor were White House tea guests. At dinner two evenings previously, the President had entertained Bernard Mannes Baruch, a onetime adviser whom he had not seen since July. The result of a clever design of happy coincidences, these visits had the effect of assuring the nation's businessmen that although Franklin Roosevelt might be pursuing a highly experimental monetary policy, he still was breaking bread with important "hard money...
Last week Director Vidal attacked the problem in typical New Deal manner. He revealed that aeronautical engineers have assured him: "It is a comparatively easy task to design and turn out on a volume-production scale a small airplane which will sell for around $700. . . . It would be a low-wing monoplane . . . would carry two passengers, be constructed of a new steel alloy, fitted with an eight-cylinder, smallbore engine . . . and equipped with a geared propeller. Top speed probably would not exceed 100 m.p.h. The outstanding feature would be the landing speed of about 25 m.p.h. which would be brought...
...move, the industry scarcely knew whether to cheer, scoff or suspect. Was the Department of Commerce about to hand out $7,000,000 contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response [to the poll] does not follow, we will...
...Avco, began quietly to build it up again by producing "flivver" planes. His losses last year were only $52.000. Last week Fairchild popped smartly back into the news with an announcement that it had contracted to build the world's fastest commercial amphibion. The Fairchild amphibion was designed for Pan American Airways which ordered six for $217,680. It will be a single-motor, eight-passenger monoplane for use over sheltered waters and rivers on Pan American's foreign routes. Its top speed is specified at 180 m. p. h., about 40 m. p. h. better than...
...pieces of the exhibition range in size from huge altars to small crucifixes. Vestments of the clergy, chalices, stained glass, mosaics, and other pieces which play a part in religious worship have all been gathered to depict the trend of modern Austro-Germanic church design. Models and photographs serve as a background...