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...might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal elegance of the Altamira bison; the grandeur of outline in the Norwegian rock engravings of bear, elk and whale; the cornucopian fecundity of Rhodesian animal landscapes; the kinetic fury of the East Spanish huntsmen; the spontaneous ease with which the South African draftsmen mastered the difficult silhouets of moving creatures: these are achievements which living artists and many others who are interested in living art have admired...
...engineering projects which are being undertaken in New York," continued Ridder, "are renovating the entire city plant in all its ramifications, and they provide jobs for the laborer, for the worker in the skilled trades, and for large numbers of engineers and draftsmen...
...massacre is still on; the survivors tremble." Lewis Corey sets the low point of unemployment among salaried employes at 35% of the total. In 1933. 65% of all U. S. chemists were out of work, 85% of all engineers, over 90% of all architects and draftsmen. Analyzed in terms of goods and services that might have been produced if prosperity had not broken down, "there was, in the five years of depression 1930-34, a loss of $185,000 million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis...
...decided they were not good enough for her pet project. A more reasonable explanation is that the houses, of the summer camp variety with only $15 wood-burning stoves for heat, were obviously unsuited to the region's sub-zero winters. Whatever the reason, ten architects and draftsmen were brought from New York and under their direction workmen began to rip up the completed houses, dig cellars, add new wings, sunrooms, dining alcoves, fireplaces, porches. Thereafter two sectors of men labored in Reedsville. Sector I set up the ready-cut houses as they arrived, according to original specifications. Sector...
...York a movement, a new "ism," to have the country run by all its 300,000 engineers and technical experts. Technocracy was the new "ism's" name and its proponents styled themselves Technocrats Headquartered at Columbia University they announced that, employing three dozen unemployed engineers, architects and draftsmen, they were conducting an "Energy Survey of North America." Startling was their array of statements about technological unemployment, mankind's machines destroying mankind's chance to earn a living "under the present price system." As preliminary fireworks they expounded such statistics as these...