Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazard No. 1 was the visit of Dr. Hugo Eckener to see what was holding up U. S. shipments of helium to Germany. Since Secretary Hull had approved the shipments, the responsibility here went to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who had not approved them...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to distribute power from Fort Peck (Mont.) Dam, sent it to the President...
...from Germany last week to try to get some helium for German dirigibles. The U. S. has practically all the helium there is, Germany has practically all the dirigibles. The National Munitions Control Board approved the export last November, but since helium is a natural resource, the Interior Department has final say. Secretary Ickes, not convinced that Germany would use the non-inflammable gas for commercial purposes only, has held up the shipment...
Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations, flossy bars, photomurals of skyscrapers, pink lights to transform dining cars into "night clubs." Passengers will call the porter not with bells, but with chimes...
...music hall styled after an interior view of a bunch of bananas, the white-haired pianist who once ruled his native Poland blinks out upon a parquet stage, bows to an effete-looking audience, sits down to play. The camera closes up, revealing a white, death-mask face, eyes shut against the world (and against the World's Fair interior around him), a sparse mustache scraggling over a pursed-up mouth that twitches with tic-like regularity...