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...architectural profession is striving to carry on, to believe in beauty, and to eat during a period of no building. The Architects of Chicago, having no outlet through steel and stone and brick, created with ideas and canvas and paint, a Latin Quarter Fête. We employed 75 draftsmen, many of whom had been out of work for months. Many of these men were Beaux Arts men-some of them Paris Prize men. They worked creatively and happily, for a small daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever...
...enter the campaign is the Forgotten Man, and no cartoonist knows who he is, where he lives, what he looks like. Over the whole political scene rests the gloom of hard times, with the electorate in no laughing mood. Affected by this atmosphere cartoonists are inclined to become draftsmen of despair, replacing good-natured fun with partisan bitterness, amusing irony with glum sarcasm...
...sales of $11,763,000 were realized on 5,386,000 gross. Imports are fractional compared to U. S. manufacturing. But a hardy competitor of U. S. pencils is the KohInoor, imported from Czechoslovakia. It was the first scientifically graded drawing pencil on the world market and draftsmen are inclined to demand it despite the 33.'% lower gross cost of U. S.-made pencils. The yellow KohInoor was the first fine quality pencil...
...church will go up on land which John D. Rockefeller Jr. now owns. An apartment thereon will be torn down when tenants' leases expire next October. Meanwhile the architects, Allen & Collens of Boston and Henry C. Pelton of Manhattan, who have had ten draftsmen working for two months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide...
...other Cooper, Engineer Dexter P., sits on a forest of blue prints, surrounded by draftsmen and tidewater inspectors, in an office on Campobello Island near the head of the Bay of Fundy. About the island and up into bottlenecked bays, the fabulous tides of Fundy swirl in and out unceasingly, marking a difference of 27 feet between flood...