Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melon is cut each year by the National Academy of Design. With its annual exhibition recently limited to just over 500 paintings, prints, drawings and pieces of sculpture, it has three medals and 15 prizes totaling $4,375 to distribute, not to speak of the dozen or so new memberships conferred on promising exhibitors who consider it a cachet to write A. N. A. after their names. Last week this melon was cut and on a crowded varnishing day the 112th exhibition of the National Academy of Design opened...
...latest Rush figureheads when new U. S. clippers reached the Thames, and one, a "River God" for the Ganges, was greatly admired by impressionable Hindus. Though the original figurehead for the Constitution was carved by a Boston carver, research has shown that it was after a William Rush design...
Reorganizing under the Graduate School of Design, the School of Regional Planning will open its doors for instruction next fall, Dean Joseph Hudnut announced today in his annual report. The department ceased teaching last June when the Rockefeller Foundation's annual grant, three quarters of its income, was discontinued...
...American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...transports about twice the size of the standard Douglas DC-2. Last spring they banded together to finance such a ship, gave Douglas the job (TIME, March 30). This has not progressed satisfactorily-Douglas is so overladen with other contracts that it may have to farm some out, the design turned out heavier than expected, and the six staffs of engineers have been unable to agree. Result: the DC-4 is still on paper. Meanwhile, Pan American and Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that 20,000 ft. was its optimum flight path; T.W.A...