Word: designers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person basement shelter on a design recommended by the Federal Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (see diagram) could be built by do-it-yourself homeowners for as little as $150, reported the task force. It could be built by a contractor for less than $500. At a small additional cost, perhaps as little as $7 per person, the shelters could be prestocked with enough survival supplies to last through a critical fortnight. Since the intensity of fallout radiation diminishes rapidly, survivors in hard-hit areas could start coming out of their shelters after a fortnight and set about...
...well as babies, the Japanese are adopting self-restraint as a national policy. Textile exports to the U.S. and Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
Premier Kishi can point out that the Japanese government is honestly fighting against unethical practices. Last year the government itself sponsored an exhibition of horrible examples of design stealing by Japanese manufacturers in order to help eliminate this blot on Japan's business reputation
...Physical planning in our cities calls upon the coordinated skills of the architect, the landscape artist, and the city planner," said Dean Jose Luis Sert. He added, "Since the Graduate School of Design is of limited enrollment, with the three professional departments under the same faculty, it is in an unusually sound position to provide this type of coordinated training...
They said on the 27th of March last that it couldn't be done, and it did seem impossible: to level and fill 16 acres of what had once been a salt marsh, dig a moat, lay foundation piles and piers, erect a huge theatre of pioneering design, and prepare a production in time for a July 9 opening...