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Word: designer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...level streets, and underpasses at street intersections, and suggests the restricting of all foot traffic to second-story arcades. The extended use of mechanical parking garages was felt to be the most economical automobile parking solution. A new invention, the Vertical Parking Machine, similar to a Ferris Wheel in design, was highly recommended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traffic Report Condemns Underpass, Two-Level Streets As Solution For Congestion--Lauds Mechanical Garages | 1/5/1932 | See Source »

...smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Britain's Best | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Howard Pyle, who was a friend of mine, to design the 1908 Seal, and I did the preparatory campaign largely myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Viewed with alarm by conservative architects and city planners is skyscraping Radio City, the $250.000,000 Rockefeller development on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan (TIME, March 16 et ante.). The design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Praise of Congestion | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...poles, Navajo rugs, blankets, silver bracelets, earrings, belt buckles, turquoise necklaces, beaded quivers. Art critics were most interested in two small galleries where hung water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ugh! Ugh! How! | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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