Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ames scholarship award is based on a fund of $300 set aside annually by the Student Council to be given to an upperclassman. This is the third time the award has been made. Richard B. Johnson '36, and C. Colmery Gibson '37 received the money two years...
...defense Alex Kevorkian will continue to team up with Traf Hicks, while Emerson and Jameson furnish the reserve power. Vint Freedley, who played a stellar game against the Tigers, will start in the nets, although if all goes well Johnson may see some service...
...Johnson Administration Building has been built like an expensive watch on what Architect Wright calls a "unit plan," everything fitting into a horizontal scheme of 20-ft. squares, a vertical scheme of 3½- in. brick units. The Johnson Building is the first sizable structure Wright has had a chance to build since the Imperial Hotel, and it ranks with that masterpiece as an engineering feat. Wright's plans for it set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. The columns by which the architect proposed to support his building were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem...
...wide horizontal rift of glass tubing at the angle of walls and ceiling and by skylights. It is ventilated through two circular ducts or "nostrils" rising through the building. Radiators have been eliminated by a heating system under the floor slabs. Clients. The history of the Johnson Building illustrates perfectly one of the traits in Frank Lloyd Wright which lesser architects have played against him for all it is worth. The architect's original estimate of its cost was $250,000. By mutual agreement this was later raised to $350,000. It is now apparent that the final cost...
...those carried at the fiscal year-end in 1937." Automobile factories work on an order basis and so have rather small current inventories of cars. But GM dealers alone, according to President Knudsen, now have some 200,000 cars, 60,000 more than normal. This led Pundit Hugh Johnson to comment last week: "The essential cause of this slump was too much inventory in the whole automobile industry...