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...experimenter with new materials and bold forms, he invented and evolved new structural uses for everything from concrete to plywood, built houses that challenged every conventional rule of the architect's art. By 1910, his new ideas had spread from suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he lived, to Holland and Germany, where a whole school of modern architecture grew up from seeds Architect Wright had planted...
...Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when it took over the original sub patents of Inventor John P. Holland, who built the U.S. Navy's first real underwater boat. Since then Ebco has built or designed more subs than any other outfit in the world. During World War I it launched 60-70 subs for the U.S. Navy, has since sold dozens more to Britain, Holland, Russia, Spain...
There are some plausible clues that Hitler is planning another Crete in the west: 1) the whole German battle fleet, now a formidable weapon, is assembled between the Hook of Holland and Trondheim, Norway; 2) the British claim (probably extravagantly) that half the fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is drawn up near the invasion coast; 3) Germany's best Field Marshal, Gerd von Rundstedt, has been sent to France; 4) Petain is out and Laval and his Anglophobes are in; 5) British experts say that Germany has been building gliders and transports all winter long. Perhaps these things...
...They were Renaissance-style windows of the sort first-rate U.S. stained-glass makers had been studiously avoiding since the early 1900s. Moreover, the artist who had thus dared oppose the prevailing medieval style was the most famous of all present-day glass stainers: a stocky, bull-necked Hollander named Joep Nicolas, who arrived in the U.S. two years ago with a wife, two children and a load of glazier's equipment, and set up shop in a large studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. In Roermond (southern Holland), where he had left behind him a vast...
Spinning Guns. "The U.S. today leads the world in the science of gun-making," says Brigadier General Holland W. Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal molds which whirl rapidly until the metal hardens. Impurities are forced to the hollow center of the barrel, where they are easily bored away, and blowholes and shrinkages are avoided...