Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Manager Sheehan lives at Beverly Hills in a house of which he supervised the design and building. It has tapestry-covered walls, a sunken garden, a library ceiling imported from Spain. Three butlers serve dinner guests from gold plates and golden goblets. To summon them, Mr. Sheehan keeps on hand a dented, rusty cowbell which he jangles loudly when service is required...
...gleaming cars stood incongruously on rich carpets and glib salesmen explained their various attractions. Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile. Some of the artists responsible for the renascence are now working on auto bodies: Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; Joseph Urban, Ziegfeld and Metropolitan Opera scenic artist; Helen Dryden, painter and fashion artist; the house of Cartier, jewelers...
...Manhattan, seven weeks ago, a picture (The Fossil Hunters) by Edwin W. Dickinson, exhibited by the National Academy of Design, won a prize although hung on its side (TIMF...
...losses in insulating materials at radio frequencies, magnetic shielding stirring effects in non-ferrous furnaces mechanical and electrolytic rectifiers, ionization of gas films development of a precision bridge for dielectric measurements at low power factors, dielectric losses in various types of power cables creepage of insulators char acteristics and design of current transformers, insulating properties of various kinds of wood, and many more. Some of these studies have resulted in papers published recently...