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Working on the problem from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, without even taking off her hat, Miss Frick first decided that warehouses were not safe enough for Frick pictures. Before any remodeling was done at all, a fireproof, burglarproof vault was dug in the basement of the house in which every treasure was moved. Then the vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried...
...part of the building which is not guarded as though under quarantine, bound editions from London, Paris, New York, Boston, Springfield, Chicago, San Francisco, and even Atlanta may be viewed at leisure. Be the explorer a genuine antiquarian, he will be shown priceless colonial papers kept in fireproof cases. The contrast between the two systems is discernible. One is good, the other bad, completely inadequate. The powers in Widener have obstinately refused the suggestion that a Hearst paper, for historical purposes only, be kept on file. They have ignored the mumblings which may be heard any morning in the periodical...
Last week 25 Reynolds-system houses were being built in New York and New Jersey. Under the Reynolds system a prospective home builder outlines his ideas to an architect who sketches the plans. These are forwarded to Reynolds Corp. which draws up specifications for Reynolds fireproof framing, structural flooring, lathing, metal foil insulation, heating, airconditioning, plumbing-approximately 80%, of the mechanical and structural parts that go into a house. The rest -hardware, lighting fixtures, floor covering, wall covering, etc.-the builder buys for himself. All Reynolds equipment is sold through local dealers. The company claims that a Reynolds house, complete...
...ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin has windows of a flexible fireproof fibre known as plastacelle. Like the Hammond, it has a Menasco motor and pusher propeller at the rear, a third wheel in front. Because this wheel is hooked up with the rudder, the plane may be steered on the ground like an automobile, a decided advantage when taxiing...
...Washington again last week, Joe Day spread his plans wide open to the world: Brooklyn Beach Gardena Apartments, Inc., 2,000 feet of water frontage on the Bay, 5,000 rooms, fireproof construction, automatic elevators, incinerators, radio outlets, 2,500 men to build them, 7,500 others to make the materials required. "This project will pay all taxes, city, State and Federal. All experts in consultation agreed that the property is one of the finest, not only in New York but in the country...