Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also decided to snuggle a circular, 1,150-seat auditorium half underground in the shoulder rise of the hill. "To frame and enclose such a huge space is an opportunity that doesn't come often to an architect," says Ed Stone. "Neither does the problem of spanning 350 feet. Why, you could put the University of Arkansas' football field in here and still have room." In the cloth velarium used by Roman emperors to cover the Colosseum, Stone found his solution to roofing the largest free-span circular building ever erected. He devised a bicycle-wheel system...
Stone landed on his feet, with a $100-a-week job designing interiors for the new Waldorf, including the romantic trellised ceiling of the Starlight Roof. Within two years he had moved over to the new Rockefeller Center, where in the presence of "the prophets," Architects Raymond Hood and Harvey Corbett of the Rockefeller Center team that included fast-rising young architect Wallace Harrison, Stone was put in charge of the working designs for Radio City Music Hall, then as now the world's largest movie palace (6,200 seats...
Rather than sell their cattle, livestock-men are now busily building up their herds. At long last, they had excellent conditions for it. Good grazing land was plentiful. Parts of the Southwest had three times as much rain this crop year as last. Soil was moist for six feet down in some areas, and once-dry water holes were brimful again. Furthermore, standard-grade feed corn was selling in Chicago for an average $1.15 per bu. v. $1.31 a year ago, and cattlemen were fattening their herds at bargain prices...
...Until the 19403, the low-priced three-Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth -manufactured cheap, compact cars meant chiefly for transportation. As demand grew for wider and longer cars with more room and comfort, Detroit changed the once small cars into big ones. From 1938 to date, Chevrolet has grown two feet overall; Ford has grown four feet since 1928. Both are now bigger than the Pontiac, Packard or Oldsmobile of ten years...
...Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed back when the plane was at 13,000 feet. Minutes later, a flash like lightning was seen in the hills southwest of Grants, N. Mex. Mike Todd and all aboard were dead...