Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently His Majesty graciously agreed to sit for a color photograph. TIME'S Photographers Leigh Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting up their camera and six batteries of lights (each containing seven flash bulbs), so as to provide exactly the best lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King...
...nine on each side of the corridor, and a porter's service compartment. Across one end of each roomette is a double seat with a folding arm rest. In an opposite corner is a toilet. Concealed in one wall are washstand and wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except the toilet and seats either hangs...
...Manhattan's 46th St.-where, with 350 of her 600 crew sent on part pay to Germany for seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft...
...Haydock, holder of the high jump record, is still with the team. Haydock jumped approximately his own height last May in the Dartmouth meet when he cleared 6 ft., 3 1/4 in. to set a new Harvard record. A Freshman record in the high jump was also set last year when Guill Aertsen jumped 6 ft. 1 5/8 in. Aertsen will strengthen the Varsity this year in that event...
...Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent 10,000 sq. ft., Russia 110,000 and Hungary 36,000. Virtually all nations are expected. Attendance is estimated at 40,000,000 first year, 24,000,000 the second. When it is all over and the debentures have been paid off, President Whalen and associates expect to have a surplus of about...