Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockefeller Revolution. Italians said the supermarket could never succeed, and for long years the arguments sounded convincing: the housewife would never surrender the personal pleasure of bargaining down prices with the neighborhood shopkeeper, maids would not forego their leisurely gossip sessions in the marketplace, clerks and customers would steal the...
CEMENT was known in ancient Crete; both Romans and Phoenicians used concrete. The shell as a form has fascinated man since he first learned to crack an egg. But it was not until mid-19th century engineers first reinforced concrete with iron ribs that concrete-shell construction suddenly opened up...
Candela moved on to experiment with conoids, folded slabs and elliptical domes. In a land where steel is costly and labor cheap, he proved that he could use concrete shells to build a big church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including...
In July 1957, Jimmy Thach's experience and versatility were turned to the deepening and long-neglected problem of antisubmarine warfare. He became one of four ASW carrier division Atlantic commanders in the Navy's Hunter-Killer Force (HUKFOR). With the three others, he was called before Arleigh...
Show business is the common-and uncommonly interesting-denominator of the immortal and the merely diverting, the sublime and the corny, the Greek amphitheater and the burlesque runway. It includes Bernard Shaw and the TV gag writer, Laurence Olivier and the Las Vegas chorus girl -as well as their audiences...