Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gas went to Mexico last week from Zapata County, Texas. Through 143 miles of spandy new 12¾ inch pipe it hissed across the border to feed iron and steel furnaces at Monterrey, "The Pittsburgh of Mexico." Pioneer in international public utility, United Gas Co. of Texas, already has contracts...
After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico.
As a seasonal present to its readers, that elegant monthly The Sportsman issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of...
The man in the street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future...
Le Corbusier's hypothesis is that man, a reasonable being who pursues his way with a purpose, will build his city on the principles of geometry -"the means created by ourselves whereby we perceive the external world and express the world within us." The Corbusier battle cry is Order...