Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans lumber tycoon named Harry Palmerton Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
Besides his ability as an oil and watercolor painter, Mr. Zerbe possesses so mean ability as a photographer. He brings to the Salon jury a nature judgement in design and composition which the competitors are most fortunate in having...
Today's announcement in the Harvard Crimson by Joseph F. Hudnut, Dean of the Faculty of Design, that: "the School of Regional Planning will resume operations next year", is heartening news to all of us, and will be also to everyone who is interested in orderly physical development of city, state and region. Only one thing could have exceeded our regret over discontinuance of the School--our joy and enthusiasm over its re-creation. A definite promise by the man directly responsible to President Conant has now assured the continuance of one of Harvard's most potent means of contributing...
Meanwhile the School of Design as a unit has shown many signs of brimming vitality. Among the most important of its innovations was the creation, in conjunction with the Division of Fine Arts, of a new undergraduate field of concentration in the history and principles of design. Of a more general character was the decision to consolidate scholarships, following the Conant plan, so that the range from $200-$1200 will be adjusted to financial need. Further the facilities of the draughting rooms and the library have been much improved...
Incorporation of the School of Regional Planning in the thoroughly alive School of Design offered the only real solution. Not only are costs cut, but greater integration of related subjects results. With its great budgetary loss, the Department of Regional Planning cannot, of course, function as well as it did in the past, but with its decks cleared for action, it stands ready to use every future contribution in the most effective manner...